Three husbands and a wedding /

For twelve months, a television crew has followed a handful of ordinary Tibetan people living in and around Gyantse, Tibet's third largest town. The result is a unique and intimate portrait of life in one of the most mysterious and isolated societies on earth. It is autumn in southern Tibet and...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: British Broadcasting Corporation (Producer)
Other Authors: Bowen, Christopher (Narrator), Firstbrook, P. L. (Producer), Shuyun, Sun (Director)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London, UK : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), 2008
Series:Year in Tibet ; 2
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