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Memoirs of a political officer's wife in Tibet, Sikkim and Bhutan

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Margaret Marshall had known Frederick Williamson for much of her life but it wasn't until the English summer of 1932, when he was home on leave from India, that they met again and fell in love. Less than a year later she joined him in the Himalayan kingdom of Sikkim, where he was now political officer for that region, and they were married. "Derrick," writes Mrs Williamson, "belongs to that rare and happy breed who are lucky enough to find their true vocation in life." He loved his job as a representative of the British Imperial government to these ancient Buddhist kingdoms, and he loved their people and way of life. And she quickly fell into step with him. Three times they travelled on tours of duty throughout the rugged and magnificent Himalayas. First to Bhutan, green and lush, where she developed a close and lasting friendship with the Royal family. And then on and up, towards the crest of the main HImalayan range and into Tibet, "...a stark, almost primeval landscape, yet strangely beautiful..." Finally, the long-awaited holy city of Lhasa, their meetings with the Thirteenth Dalai Lama, their visits to the three great monasteries that housed between them some twenty thousand monks, and, again, abiding friendships. But her new-found life was to come to a painful halt, for Derrick became ill and died during their second stay in Lhasa in 1935. "in a sense," Mrs Williamson writes fifty years later, "that brief period was my life..." In these memoirs, she poignantly portrays that life, and paints a broader picture of life as it was in these remarkable countries - a life that was also to come to a painful and terrible halt twenty-five years later when the Chinese took over Tibet. -- from inside cover.

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Memoirs of a political officer's wife in Tibet, Sikkim and Bhutan
1987, Wisdom, Distributed by Element Books
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Edition Notes

Distributor from label on p. 4 of cover.
Includes index.

Published in
London, Longmead, Shaftesbury, Dorset
Series
Wisdom Tibet book.

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Dewey Decimal Class
954
Library of Congress
DS786 .W49 1987, DS786.W49 1987

The Physical Object

Pagination
240 p., [48] p. of plates :
Number of pages
240

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Open Library
OL2469730M
Internet Archive
memoirsofpolitic00will
ISBN 10
0861710568
LCCN
87180840, gb87015180
OCLC/WorldCat
25163550
Library Thing
1573579
Goodreads
388827

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