First Russia, Then Tibet
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Over the course of several months during 1931 and 1932, Robert Byron journeyed to three countries teetering on the brink of change.
In Russia, Stalin's dictatorship was in its infancy and the Great Terror was yet to begin; in India, Byron was thrown into the tumultuous last years of the British Raj. Finally Byron entered Tibet, the forbidden country, where he saw the country as it was when the Dalai Lama was still ensconced in the Potala Palace.
Blending classic travel writing with passionate observations on the deeper political and social issues of the time, Byron writes with uncanny prescience of the eventual horrors of the Soviet Union and the downfall of the Raj.
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