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The Deputy glanced down at the white man and then muttered, almost to himself. 'But how did a Westerner travel into Pemako in the first place?'When the Abbot spoke, his voice was thin and resigned. 'It is the end of our monastery. By nightfall I will be dead and our walls will lie shattered. A terrible evil is coming from the forest...'A monastery in Tibet is overrun with Chinese soldiers searching for a sacred relic. The monks flee to seek refuge in hidden caves, but their progress is hampered by an injured stranger, whose presence threatens them all...Jouralist Nancy Kelly receives a parcel containing a mysterious trumpet made of bone, and hears an account of a Westerner penetrating into a hidden kingdom in Tibet, where orchids cover the earth, pagodas hug the hills and soaring cathedrals hide underground.Soon she embarks on a dangerous journey into an ancient land of myth and legend, in search of a secret older than time itself...
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Kingdom, Tom Martin
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- Année de publication
- 2009
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- Titre
- Kingdom
- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Tom Martin
- Éditeur
- Pan Macmillan
- Publié
- 2009
- Format
- souple
- Pages
- 499
- ISBN10
- 0330452126
- ISBN13
- 9780330452120
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Fiction, Polars & Thrillers, Romans historiques, Aventure, Thriller, Politique, Horreur, Action, Inde, Tibet, Moines, Dalai Lama, Artefacts, Shangri-La
- Titre original
- The Kingdom
- Évaluation
- 3,5 sur 5
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- The Deputy glanced down at the white man and then muttered, almost to himself. 'But how did a Westerner travel into Pemako in the first place?'When the Abbot spoke, his voice was thin and resigned. 'It is the end of our monastery. By nightfall I will be dead and our walls will lie shattered. A terrible evil is coming from the forest...'A monastery in Tibet is overrun with Chinese soldiers searching for a sacred relic. The monks flee to seek refuge in hidden caves, but their progress is hampered by an injured stranger, whose presence threatens them all...Jouralist Nancy Kelly receives a parcel containing a mysterious trumpet made of bone, and hears an account of a Westerner penetrating into a hidden kingdom in Tibet, where orchids cover the earth, pagodas hug the hills and soaring cathedrals hide underground.Soon she embarks on a dangerous journey into an ancient land of myth and legend, in search of a secret older than time itself...