{"product_id":"bones-of-the-master-george-crane-9780553379082","title":"Bones of the Master: A Journey to Secret Mongolia","description":"In 1959 a young monk named Tsung Tsai (Ancestor Wisdom) escapes the Red Army troops that destroy his monastery, and flees alone three thousand miles across a China swept by chaos and famine. Knowing his fellow monks are dead, himself starving and hunted, he is sustained by his mission: to carry on the teachings of his Buddhist meditation master, who was too old to leave with his disciple. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNearly forty years later Tsung Tsai -- now an old master himself -- persuades his American neighbor, maverick poet George Crane, to travel with him back to his birthplace at the edge of the Gobi Desert. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThey are unlikely companions. Crane seeks freedom, adventure, sensation. Tsung Tsai is determined to find his master's grave and plant the seeds of a spiritual renewal in China. As their search culminates in a torturous climb to a remote mountain cave, it becomes clear that this seemingly quixotic quest may cost both men's lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e George Crane\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0553379089\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780553379082\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bantam\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/29\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.80d","brand":"George Crane","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43994868285695,"sku":"9780553379082","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_fd90a8e6-1db6-4b19-b589-2463c89e5897.jpg?v=1683332642","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/bones-of-the-master-george-crane-9780553379082","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}