The Myth of Shangri-La: Tibet, Travel Writing and the Western Creation of Sacred Landscape

by Peter Bishop and Peter Bishop

Shangri-la. An arcadia hidden in a remote, secluded valley. A vast, wind-swept plain cradled among the far away peaks of the Orient. Tibet. Beginning almost as a mere rumor in the mid-eighteenth century, Tibet evolved over the next century of industrialization into one of the last great sacred places of Victorian romanticism, taking on much of the mystery, power, and ambiguity of more traditionally experienced sacred spaces. In this masterful study,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520066863
• ISBN13: 9780520066861
• Release Date: December 1989
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.