Peter Goullart was brought up in the Orient and spent most of his life there. This book describes his years in the ancient forgotten Chinese kingdom of Nakhi in Yunnan, by the Tibetan border, where, as a representative of the Chinese Industrial Co-operatives, he really mixed with the people. 'This is a book about paradise by a man who lived there for nine years. It is not easy to write a good book about paradise, but people are Mr. Goullart's forte, and when he mixes us up with the Nakhis he delivers us up to his idyll. Lijiang itself, fits sunlight and its flowers and its rushing waters, its wine shops and caravans, its glints of danger, its swagger and its happy laughter, is really here.'

Forgotten Kingdom: Eight Years in Likiang (John Murray Travel Classics)

Travel

PETER GOULLART

Asia

John Murray Publishers, Ltd.

The Monastery of Jade Mountain

Llanerch Press

The author was born in Moscow at the beginning of the century. As a boy he traveled to Europe and in the Russian Revolution he escaped from Moscow with his mother through Vladivostok to Shanghai. There he learned Chinese and at a moment of personal crisis went to study at the Taoist Monastery near Hangchow.

Forgotten Kingdom: Among the Nakhis of Likiang

Caravan Press

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