These amazing, historic photos were recently sent to me by Ralph Lake, an old colleague and excellent Mandarin speaker, who shared an extraordinary year with me in Dalian, Manchuria, where I taught English at the Dalian Foreign Language Institute for a year from 1984-1985. It was only five years after […]
Simon Winchester
I am pleased to announce that Journey to Ki, the story of my Himalayan odyssey to the highest monastery in the world, has just been published on Kindle ( http://tinyurl.com/2cogfly ) Ki lies behind the Inner Line, a militarised buffer zone between India and Chinese Tibet, in the formidable Spiti […]