Tibetan Foothold is Dervla Murphy's account of the day-to-day life in an orphanage for Tibetan children in the refugee camps of Northern India in the 1960s. Dervla vividly describes the children's

Tibetan Foothold

Tibetan Foothold is Dervla Murphy's account of the day-to-day life in an orphanage for Tibetan children in the refugee camps of Northern India in the 1960s. Dervla vividly describes the children's lives in squalor while a handful of dedicated volunteers do their best to feed and care for them, attempting to keep disease at bay with limited resources. Dervla's heart-rending account is interwoven with her own observations on the particular cultural and social problems associated with trying to help a people who have lived in isolation from the rest of the world, and she becomes a perceptive witness to the inner realities and sometime inadequacies of aid work.
Country USA
Brand Eland
Manufacturer Eland Publishing
Binding Paperback
PartNumber Illustrations, map, ports.
Height 8.75
Length 5.75
Weight 2.314853751
Width 0.75
ReleaseDate 2012-04-12
NumberOfItems 1

Tibetan Foothold