Sky Burial [Audiobook] download free by Xinran
- Listen audiobook: Sky Burial
- Author: Xinran
- Release date: 2005/8/19
- Publisher: VINTAGE PUBLISHING
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Travel and Holiday Guides
- ISBN: 9780099461937
- Rating: 9.47 of 10
- Votes: 774
- Review by: Terrence Wingate
- Review rating: 7.11 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/21
- Duration: 2H10M1S in 256 kbps (35.2 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-01
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MP3, WMA, Vorbis, WMA Lossless, WAV, MPEG4, FLAC (compression RPM, RAR, 7Z, TAR.LZO, TAR.BZ, ZIP)
- Total pages original book: 176
- Includes a PDF summary of 17 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 12M15S (3.4 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: As a young girl in China Xinran heard a rumour about a soldier in Tibet who had been brutally fed to the vultures in a ritual known as a sky burial: the tale frightened and fascinated her. Several decades later Xinran met Shu Wan, a Chinese woman who had spent years searching for her missing husband who had been serving as a doctor in Tibet; her extraordinary life story would unravel the legend of the sky burial. For thirty years she was lost in the wild and alien landscape of Tibet, in the vast and silent plateaus and the magisterial mountain ranges, living with communities of nomads moving with the seasons and struggling to survive.In this haunting book, Xinran recreates Shu Wen's remarkable journey in an epic story of love, loss, loyalty and survival. Moving, shocking and, ultimately, uplifting Sky Burial paints a unique portrait of a woman and a land, both at the mercy of fate and politics.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Autobiography: General, True Stories Of Heroism, Endurance & Survival, Travel Writing, Gender Studies: Women, Social & Cultural Anthropology
- Download servers: Woelkli, FreakShare, FileServe, MEGA, Syncthing, Uploaded, 4Shared, KickAssTorents, Mediafire, Dropbox. Compressed in RPM, RAR, 7Z, TAR.LZO, TAR.BZ, ZIP
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 10.58 USD
- Dimensions: 129x198x13mm
- Weight: 168g
- Printed by: VINTAGE
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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