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Review: “Out of This World: Across the Himalayas to Forbidden Tibet”
Out of This World: Across the Himalayas to Forbidden Tibet (Lowell Thomas, Jr.) In 1949, the government of Tibet gave permission to Lowell Thomas, the broadcaster who made Lawrence of Arabia famous, and his son, the author of this book, to travel to Lhasa. Lhasa, the holiest city in all of Tibet, was off-limits to…