Globe Pequot / Lyons Press
Pages: 336
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978-0-7627-8297-0 • Hardback • September 2012 • $24.95 • (£15.95)
Joyce Morgan has worked as a journalist for more than three decades in London, Sydney and Hong Kong. Her writing has appeared in The Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, The Guardian and The Bangkok Post. She has written on arts and culture since 1994. Joyce is a senior arts writer at The Sydney Morning Herald and a former arts editor of the paper. She has also worked as a producer with ABC Radio. Born in Liverpool, England, she has travelled extensively in Asia, including India, Pakistan, China and Tibet. Conrad Walters has worked in the media for more than thirty years in the United States, where he won awards for investigative journalism, and in Australia, where he is a feature writer and book reviewer at The Sydney Morning Herald. Conrad was born in Boston, educated in Europe and the Middle East and has lived in seven countries. He has travelled widely through North America, Europe and Asia. He has a master's degree in Creative Writing from the University of Technology, Sydney. They live in Sydney, Australia.
"A high-velocity tale of epic adventure." --Sydney Morning Herald
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From the journey’s beginning in the oasis of the Singing Sands, through the perils of the London Blitz, this is the story of an epic adventure, and an extraordinary Buddhist text that has touched millions of lives.