LOST IN TIBET: THE UNTOLD STORY OF FIVE AMERICAN AIRMEN,A DOOMED PLANE,AND THE WILL TO SURVIVE
Book ID/图书代码： 08290004B07565
English Summary/英文概要： November 1943.
Caught in a violent storm and blown far off their intended course, five American airmen—flying the dangerous Himalayan supply route known as “The Hump”—were forced to bail out just seconds before their plane ran out of fuel. To their astonishment, they found they had landed in the heart of Tibet.
Miraculously, all five survived the jump. But their ordeal was just beginning.
After crossing some of Tibet’s most treacherous mountains, the five airmen rode on borrowed mules into the fabled city of Lhasa. Their arrival was not a matter of choice; instead they were escorted to Lhasa by a suspicious Tibetan government, trapped in a tightening vise between China and the West.
The five were among the first Americans ever to enter the Forbidden City (two years before Heinrich Harrer, author of Seven Years in Tibet), and among the last to see it before the Chinese launched their invasion.
While in Tibet, the five Americans had to confront what, to them, seemed a bizarre - even alien - people. At the same time, they had to extricate themselves from the political turmoil that even then was raging around Tibet’s right to be independent from China.
To avert an international incident - and to assure their own safety - the five men were forced to leave Lhasa in a hurry. They set out, in the middle of winter, on a perilous journey across the Tibetan plateau - only to find themselves caught in a desperate race against time.
Lost in Tibet is an extraordinary story of high adventure, cultural conflict, and political intrigue. It also sheds light on the remarkable Tibetan people, just at that moment when they were coming to terms with a hostile outside world.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 1943年11月。暴风雨降临，试图飞越“驼峰”-----喜马拉雅山上专门用来运送物资的那条危险路线的五位美国空军受困其中，举步维艰，狂风四起，把他们吹离了预定的航线，飞机马上就要没汽油了，他们因此不得不跳伞。但是出乎他们预料的是，这五位美国空军居然降落到了西藏的腹地。他们竟奇迹般地活了下来，可这只是磨难的开始。他们横穿了西藏境内最险峻的几座山脉，然后借来了骡子一路骑进了拉萨那座迷幻般的城市。当然，他们来到拉萨不是什么可以选择的事情，相反，他们是被一个可疑的“西藏政府”护送到拉萨的，因为中国与西方越来越紧的签证使他们寸步难行。他们几个是最早被允许进入紫禁城的美国人之一（比写《西藏的七年生活》的作者Heinrich Harrer还早了两年），也是在中国政府入侵之前的最后一批。在西藏，这五位美国人不得不面对，在他们看来，希奇古怪、荒诞甚至可以说是天外来客的人们。同时他们还要使自己不被牵扯进那场甚至在当时就已闹得不可开交的、围绕西藏独立的政治风波中。 为了避免一场国际性的事变，也为了确保他们自己的安全，他们五个不得不匆匆离开了拉萨。隆冬之际，他们一行五人踏上了危险之旅，横穿了西藏高原，结果竟不知不觉陷入了与时间玩命的赛跑中了。 《迷失西藏》是一本讲述极限冒险、文化冲突、政治阴谋的精彩小说。小说同时也展现了西藏人民不平凡的一面，特别是当他们在与外界恶劣的环境抗衡时所表现出的非凡品质。
Awards/获奖情况：MIRIAM MURCUTT和 RICHARD STARKS已游历过世界各地多个偏远地区，在他们众多的远足探险中，包括与朝拜者们一起围绕着西藏最伟大的几座修道院所收藏的可兰经朝拜；跋山涉水，尽可能地遵循这几位迷路空军的原路线。他们现居科罗拉多州的大石城。
About the Author/作者介绍： MIRIAM MURCUTT and RICHARD STARKS have traveled extensively in some of the more remote parts of the world. Among their many expeditions is a walk with pilgrims around the koras of Tibet’s greatest monasteries and a trek that followed as much as possible the route taken by the lost airmen of Tibet. They live in Boulder, Colorado.
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