TO A MOUNTAIN IN TIBET
Book ID/图书代码： 00200010B42126
English Summary/英文概要： Mount Kailas is the most sacred of the world’s mountains - holy to one fifth of humanity. Isolated beyond the central Himalayas, it is claimed by myth to be the source of the universe created from cosmic waters and the mind of Brahma. Its summit has never been scaled, but for centuries the mountain has been ritually circled by Hindu and Buddhist pilgrims. Colin Thubron joins these pilgrims, after an arduous trek from Nepal, through the high passes of Tibet, to the magical lakes beneath the slopes of Kailas itself. This haunting and beautiful travel book links Colin Thubron’s sympathetic intuition with the force and poetry of his descriptive writing. He talks to secluded villagers and to monks in their decaying monasteries; he tells the stories of exiles and of eccentric explorers from the West. Yet there is another dimension in "To A Mountain in Tibet". Colin Thubron recently witnessed the death of the last of his family. He is walking on a pilgrimage of his own. His trek around the great mountain, revered by multitudinous others, awakes an inner landscape of solitude, love, grief, restoring precious fragments of his own origins. This is travel writing at its consummate best from an author of unsurpassable experience, sensitivity, and sheer lyrical power.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 科林??休布倫總是賦予他的作品令人過目不忘且回味無窮的本領… 科林??休布倫是公認的大師級的旅行作家，作品所獲獎項和好評無數。豐富的旅行經驗、敏銳的情感觸覺以及與生俱來的抒發胸懷的天賦造就了他堪稱典範的旅行作品。《城牆背後》獲得霍桑登獎；《行走西伯利亞》獲得布維爾獎金；《絲綢之路的陰影》榮登紐約時報暢銷書排行榜；科林于2010正是成為英國皇家文學會主席。
神山是世界上五分之一的人口頂禮膜拜的聖地，神話傳說中稱其為宇宙水域和梵天意志所創造的宇宙之源，幾個世紀以來它都是印度人和佛教朝聖者所景仰朝拜。科林加入了朝聖者艱難跋涉的行列，從尼泊爾啟程，通過西藏的天路，最後領略到到神山斜坡下面迷人的湖泊美景。作者以飽含力度並充滿詩意的筆觸將滿懷同情的直覺感悟融入到這本令人賞心悅目的書籍當中。他與與世隔絕的村民和衰敗的修道院中僧侶的談話，他所講述的從西方流亡至此的被驅逐者者和古怪的探險者，都為此書增添了一抹不一般的色彩。然而書中還有另外一層含義， 最近科林經歷了家人的離世 這也是屬於他自己的一次朝拜之旅。跋涉于險峰，喚醒了內心深處關於孤獨、愛還有悲痛的林林總總，撿拾起一路走來的記憶碎片，作者以他獨一無二的旅行經歷，敏銳的情感觸覺以及與生俱來的抒發胸懷的天賦，造就了此部不可多得的作品。 （Claire)
Awards/获奖情况：“Engrossing and affecting…poignant evocations of his mother and sister, interwoven with his profound respect for the Tibetan culture and landscape, make Thubron’s memoir an utterly moving read.” (Publishers Weekly (starred review) ) “A powerful and hauntingly elegiac hybrid of travelogue and memoir” (Kirkus Reviews ) --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
About the Author/作者介绍： Colin Thubron is an acknowledged master of travel writing, and the winner of many prizes and awards. His first writing was about the Middle East - Damascus, Lebanon and Cyprus. In 1982 he travelled into the Soviet Union in an ancient Morris Marina, pursued by the KGB, a journey he recorded in Among the Russians. From these early experiences developed his classic travel books: Behind the Wall (winner of the Hawthornden Prize and the Thomas Cook Travel Award), The Lost Heart of Asia, In Siberia (Prix Bouvier) and Shadow of the Silk Road (all available in Vintage).In 2010 Colin Thubron became President the Royal Society of Literature.
科林??休布倫，獲獎小說家和旅行作家，作品包括《俄羅斯獨旅》《行走西伯利亞》和紐約時報暢銷書《絲綢之路的陰影》，居住在倫敦。
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