Reviewed on Peakd
And thus endeth my year-long study of Tibet. I find myself disappointed with my own performance, if truth be known. Of all the books on this list, all but 3 were begun before March, when I landed in Ukraine. It seems that since landing here I have simply not devoted as much time to reading as I used to. Between the headache of chartering a new company and the whirlwind of a new romance perhaps I can be excused, but I still wish I had read more. I never did get around to My Land and My People by the 14th Dalai Lama. I never did get around to Among Warriors by Pamela Logan, or Snellgrove's cultural history. Just three history textbooks (two legitimate and one written by the Chinese government), two biographies of lamas who escaped, one biography of a Khampa warrior who did the same, a biography of a 19th century Dalai Lama who saw the Qing and KMT eras, and a biography of a German trooper who saw Tibet before and during the takeover. There is so much more to know.
Perhaps one day I will revisit this study and discover it.
But for now, it is time, according to my self-imposed discipline of changing my reading topic at New Year's Day, to bid farewell to Tibet for now and move on to another subject. I find myself torn between whether to make 2022 a year-long study of Mongolia, of North Korea, or of principles of war and strategy.