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|author=Colin Thubron
|title=To a Mountain in Tibet
|rating=4
|genre=Travel
|summary=This must go down as the least apposite indefinite article in a book title yet. Yes, there are many other mountains dotting the plains of Tibet, but calling this one just 'a' mountain, when it is sacred to a fifth of the world's religious people... Hindu and Buddhist faiths alike venerate Mount Kailas, and devotees are supposed to visit and circle round it to cleanse a lifetime's sins. Thubron takes us on his own pilgrimage, from impoverished cliff-side villages in Nepal, through to Chinese-occupied Tibet and to the sacred route around the mountain.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099532646</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Eowyn Ivey