- Paperback: 298 pages
- Publisher: Overlook Press; Reprint edition (Aug 30 2004)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1585675474
- ISBN-13: 978-1585675470
- Product Dimensions: 21 x 34.4 x 2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 340 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #978,160 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Chasing elusive chimeras is familiar territory for many exotic travel books. Take Pamela Logan: an overeducated, third-degree karate black belt who landed a grant to crisscross China and Tibet in search of a route into the forbidden province of Kham. In that stony, mountainous terrain live the Khampa, horsemen renowned for bitter guerrilla battles against the Chinese army that annexed Tibet.
An extremely hardy soul, Logan bicycles though high snowy passes, hitchhikes across barren reaches broken by few settlements, stumbles through driving rain with Buddhist pilgrims, befriends orange-robed monks, and treks along slick ice pathways hung over precipitous drops in eastern Tibet. En route, she ponders the discipline of karate and swallows gallons of yak butter tea. The dialogue she recreates is stiff but fresh; vivid phrasing beautifully renders the people, the landscape, and her own evolution. --Francesca Coltrera --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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In the fortress that is Tibet no place is more remote than the province of Kham and no people more elusive than the Khampa, the fierce horsemen who for twenty-five years waged a relentless guerrilla war against the Chinese occupation. In Among Warriors, a different kind of warrior sets out to find the Khampa: Pamela Logan, an American with a Ph.D. in aerospace science, and a third-degree black belt in karate. Logan cycles, hitchhikes, and treks across the windswept plateaus and icy mountain passes of eastern Tibet. She drinks tea with monks and herdsmen, dodges Chinese police, and watches in awe as religious pilgrims inch their way toward Lhasa by prostrating themselves at every body length. Writing with vast sensory power and sympathy, Logan produces a gem that will captivate those interested in Buddhism, the martial arts, and one of the world's last inaccessible regions.
"[Logan] writes of getting to Lhasa with all the wistfulness of Chekhov's three sisters dreaming of Moscow."--New York Times Book Review --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
"[Logan] writes of getting to Lhasa with all the wistfulness of Chekhov's three sisters dreaming of Moscow."--New York Times Book Review --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
I loved it!,
By A Customer
This review is from: Among Warriors: A Woman Martial Artist in Tibet (Paperback)
A friend of mine passed this book along to me and I am so glad she did!The author did a wonderful job describing her journey; I felt as if I was right there with her through the entire trip! Her determination and courage were so inspiring! Thanks, Pam!
2.0 out of 5 stars
Among Shleppers,
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This review is from: Among Warriors: A Woman Martial Artist in Tibet (Paperback)
Pam Logan disappointed me because she never manages to deliver her book's promises. She bikes through China and Tibet, but offers few details about this type of travel; indeed, she spends half of the book on foot. She becomes obsessed by the Kham warrior people, but never actually enters their territory.She is admired by at least two local men, but circumspectly never reveals the outcome of those relationships. She is stopped by police at the Tibetan border, and never reveals the subterfuge by which she successfully crosses. And then, of course, there's all that claptrap about how travel is like performing karate exercises. Real travel books reveal their author's strategy for surviving the awful and the exotic. Logan reveals only her longing to be back in California, kicking and slashing ghosts.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Courageous reporting on both an emotional and physical level,
By A Customer
This review is from: Among Warriors: A Woman Martial Artist in Tibet (Paperback)
In "Among Warriors - A Martial Artist in Tibet", Pamela Logan frankly relates her travel experiences, documenting the emotional and physical challenges she faced. She courageously reveals the beginning steps of her growing understanding and appreciation for the Buddhist faith as she searches for the elusive warriors of Kham; none of the typical travel writer's pretence at omnipotence here - Logan is open to what the experience brings her and we are fortunate to share vicariously in her journey. In addition, she faithfully and vividly describes a relatively unknown part of the world - very useful on my recent trip there!
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