{"product_id":"the-mountain-will-decide-karen-swenson-9781637772560","title":"The Mountain Will Decide","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Where will you go when I die?\" Swenson's elderly aunt asked, triggering her first journey to Tibet. But what began as a trip in memoriam expanded to a fascination with a country with a deeply Buddhist culture, dominated and exploited by its wealthy neighbor China. The fascination in turn enlarged to an obsession whose essence became a mountain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver a couple of decades Swenson traveled every year or two back to Tibet to places that enchanted her, that fascinated her, that she needed to see again-Lhasa, Gyantze, Shigatze, Tholing, Tsaparang. She became friends with a Tibetan woman of her own age. She traveled sometimes with friends, sometimes only with a guide. But the sacred mountain, Mount Kailash, and the thirty-three mile walk, the \u003cem\u003ekhora\u003c\/em\u003e, around the mountain became a path she yearned to return to. Here, in the rain-shadow of the Himalayas in a landscape dry and ascetic, sere in its stone-boned beauty at 18,600 feet she experienced an illumination of her life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Karen Swenson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1637772564\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781637772560\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Red Penguin Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/15\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 600\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.91lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.33d","brand":"Karen Swenson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44132511580415,"sku":"9781637772560","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e3e306e8-8c11-4237-b3cb-dd13be13bcea.jpg?v=1687480640","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-mountain-will-decide-karen-swenson-9781637772560","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}