| Tibetan Foothold Contributor(s): Murphy, Dervla (Author) |
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ISBN: 1906011648 ISBN-13: 9781906011642 Publisher: Eland OUR PRICE: $31.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science - Travel | Asia - Far East |
| LCCN: 2012439294 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (0.66 lbs) 224 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Tibetan Foothold is Dervla Murphy's account of the day-to-day life in an orphanage for Tibetan children in the refugee camps of Northern India in the 1960s. Dervla vividly describes the children's lives in squalor while a handful of dedicated volunteers do their best to feed and care for them, attempting to keep disease at bay with limited resources. Dervla's heart-rending account is interwoven with her own observations on the particular cultural and social problems associated with trying to help a people who have lived in isolation from the rest of the world, and she becomes a perceptive witness to the inner realities and sometime inadequacies of aid work. |