Brandon Wilson's "Yak Butter Blues" is Recommended by Library Journal

Library Journal, one of the country's most respected reviewers of new books, has recommended Brandon Wilson's new book "Yak Butter Blues: A Tibetan Trek Of Faith" to their 100,000 library directors, administrators, and others in public, academic, and special libraries for addition to their adventure travel and Tibetan culture collections.

(PRWEB) October 20, 2004 -- Library Journal, one of the country's most respected reviewers of new books, has recommended YAK BUTTER BLUES: A TIBETAN TREK OF FAITH by Brandon Wilson to their 100,000 library directors, administrators, and others in public, academic, and special libraries for addition to their adventure travel and Tibetan culture collections.

In reviewing the book, Sheila Kasperek in Library Journal (October 15, 2004) states, "Recent changes in travel restrictions on the China/Nepal border allowed Wilson and his wife to make the 1000-kilometer Tibetan pilgrimage between Kathmandu and Lhasa, becoming some of the first Westerners to accomplish this feat. They chose to make the trip on foot, though they quickly purchased a horse to accompany them. Here, Wilson takes readers through the hardships of late-season trekking and into the homes of the Tibetan people, on whom he and his wife were dependent for basic survival. With few language skills and many items of value to the materially poor locals, the couple engaged in a series of charades and cross-cultural bargaining that brought humor and no small amount of suspense to an otherwise difficult journey.

Wilson observes the impact of the Chinese occupation on the daily lives of Tibetans, which distinguishes his book from Heinrich Harrer's classic Seven Years in Tibet, which took place before the invasion of China and the fleeing of the Dalai Lama.

Recommended for adventurer travel and Tibetan culture collections."

YAK BUTTER BLUES (2nd edition) was published November 2005 by Pilgrim's Tales. It is distributed by Ingram and Baker and Taylor.

For more information, photographs, a sample chapter and press kit, visit www.PilgrimsTales.com.

Library Journal, founded in 1876, is the oldest independent national library publication.

Yak Butter Blues: A Tibetan Trek of Faith

by Brandon Wilson

280 pages, Travel Narrative/Non-Fiction

27 duo-tone photographs & maps

5.5" x 8.5" * ISBN: 0-9770536-6-0 * $16.95 trade paperback

6" x 9" * ISBN: 0-9770536-7-9 * $26.95 hardcover

2nd edition published by Pilgrim’s Tales

Distributed by Ingram and Baker & Taylor

Available at www.PilgrimsTales.com, bookstores, Amazon.com, BN.com, or Borders.com.

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