Mustang: The Culture and Landscape of Lo

by Michael Beck

English
290 (Throughout Color & B/W Illustrations)

About The Book
The normals look like bandits with their swords tucked into their belts, their long unkempt hair, and their heavy wool and leather

garments. Unsubmissive and restless, they are free master of the vast silences on the roof of the world, They are the only people I

they are unfettered, serene in their essential simplicity, ignorant of illusory architecture which time wears down and blows like

dust before the wind. As they wander through those immense spaces they seems to be suspended between heaven and earth.
The landscape I had been prepared for a fairly barren land, but this was beyond everything I had imagined. How could any humans

live here? What I saw below me was just chaos, and in my surprise I failed to grasp the strange beauty of this landscape.
Preface
Mustang was and still is an enchanted region where nature and culture intermingled to keep a very old tradition alive. Culturally,

geographically, and historically Tibetan, but within the Borders of Nepal , it has become a time capsule of Tibetan Heritage and a place

where the rich traditionof Tibetan Buddhism is carried on to this.
People may wonder why and how communities may have chosen to settle in such unforgiving living conditions, but if you were

actually living there, you would probably understand it by yourself.
There is a profound spiritual bond with nature and with the sacred keeping the locals strongly attached to this land. The harshness of

the region, its remotness and its difficult access helped the Mustang people developing a unique culture based on simplicity,yet

fullness.
In the past 15 years Ive been involved in and unusual project s

287 pages, Paperback

Published August 1, 2014

About the author

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Beck is known predominantly for his roles as Swan in the action film The Warriors (1979), Sonny Malone in Xanadu (1980), Lieutenant Commander Dallas in Megaforce (1982), and Koda in Triumphs of a Man Called Horse (1983). Both the Xanadu and Megaforce roles garnered him Razzie nominations, for Worst Actor and Worst Supporting Actor, respectively.[citation needed] Beck has appeared in other movies such as Warlords of the 21st Century (1982), Wes Craven's Chiller (1985), Gone to Texas (1986, as James Bowie) and Forest Warrior (1996).[citation needed] He also read for, but did not get, the role of Lancelot in John Boorman's film Excalibur.

Beck appeared as Hans Helms in the 1978 TV miniseries Holocaust, and starred in a short-lived television series, Houston Knights (1987). More recently, he appeared in such television shows as JAG, Walker, Texas Ranger, In the Heat of the Night, as the Mars-born terrorist-turned-cyborg assassin Abel Horn in Babylon 5 (episode "Spider in the Web"), and as Mr. Jones in the spinoff series Crusade.

Beck has narrated numerous audiobooks of John Grisham's novels. He has also narrated Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz; A Darkness More Than Light by Michael Connelly; State of the Union by David Callahan; and the unabridged version of Bill Clinton's My Life. He also reprised his role as Swan in 2005, lending his voice to the popular video game adaptation of The Warriors.