Tibet: Record of A Journey

by Alan Winnington

First American Edition. Paperback. 235pp, map endpapers, colored frontispiece, 27 b/w illustrations, 2 appendices. 8vo/22cm. Yellow pictorial wraps, shadowing to spine, edgeworn at spine ends, internally fine. Record of the first English journalist to visit Tibet after the Chinese invasion. Alan Winnington (1910-1983) was press officer of the Communist Party of Great Britain, then chief sub-editor of The Daily Worker, later its principal foreign correspondent. He visited Tibet as the guest of the two Grand Lamas of Tibet and the Chinese Government so had wide access to both official and unofficial personalities.

235 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1957