Shangri-La: Along the Tea Road to Lhasa

By: Yamashita, Michael

The legendary Chamagudao, or Tea-Horse Road, winds through dizzying mountain passes, across famed rivers like the Mekong and the Yangtze, and past monasteries and meadows in a circuitous route from Sichuan and Yunnan Provinces in western China to the Tibetan capital city of Lhasa. Actually a network of roads, trails, and highways, rather than one distinct route, the Chamagudao once stretched for almost 1,400 miles--a conduit along which the historic trade between the mighty Chinese Empire and the nomadic Tibetans linked remote villages and ethnic groups. Following the Chamagudao, photographer Michael Yamashita takes a rare and enchanting look into the changing world of Tibet--ancient and modern, sacred and secular--before the legends and mysteries of the Tea-Horse Road disappear into the Tibetan mist.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 885441560X
• ISBN13: 9788854415607
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: White Star Publishers
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 4.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 10.6" x 11.1"