Yak Butter Blues: A Tibetan Trek of Faith by Brandon Wilson Receives International Literary Award
Hawaii Author Brandon Wilson’s Tibet travel adventure book, Yak Butter Blues: A Tibetan Trek of Faith, is the recent recipient of an international literary award. This true story about a couple’s courageous quest for survival and enlightenment during their 650-mile trek across Tibet has received a 2005 "IPPY" Award Honorable Mention in the Travel Essay division.
(PRWEB) June 2, 2005 -- Hawaii Author Brandon Wilson’s travel adventure book,
Yak Butter Blues: A Tibetan Trek of Faith, is the recent recipient of an
international literary award. This true story about a couple’s courageous quest
for survival and enlightenment during their 650-mile trek across Tibet has
received a 2005 "IPPY" Award Honorable Mention in the Travel Essay
division.
Author Brandon Wilson stated, "I only hope this book in some
small way contributes to the world understanding of Tibet--and its brave
struggle to survive China's oppression--before it's too late."
Yak Butter
Blues: A Tibetan Trek of Faith is an inspiring new book of Tibetan adventure. It
exposes the raw challenge of traveling deliberately, one-step-at-a-time on an
incredible 650-mile (1000-kilometer) trek across the unforgiving Himalayan
plains.
Join this determined man and woman, along with Sadhu, their
Tibetan horse, as they set off to attempt to become the first Western couple to
trek this ancient trail across the earth's most remote corner.
What
begins as an adventure, quickly turns into so much more. Discovering that
Tibetans cannot trek this same pilgrim's trail of faith from Lhasa to Kathmandu,
they decide to walk it in their place–and prove to the authorities that it can
be done without repercussions in China.
Their true story is a riveting
tale of human endurance. The Wilsons face Tibet's ruthless environment head-on:
the blistering winds, extreme temperatures, sandstorms, blizzards, high
altitudes and the thinnest of air–made all the more challenging by exhaustion,
hunger, illness, inflexible bureaucrats and implacable, trigger-happy Chinese
soldiers.
Yak Butter Blues is a story of faith and the kindness of
strangers. It provides a candid first-hand look at the lives of the Tibetan
families who secret them into their homes–and at a culture teetering on the edge
of extinction.
Yak Butter Blues is a tale of personal enlightenment, as
the couple discovers a sense of greater purpose, wonder, a renewed faith and
ultimately what it takes to endure.
Wilson leads you along on their
physical, spiritual and emotional pilgrimage, through the highs and lows, across
this startling land in this colorful, candid, caring and classic tale, Yak
Butter Blues: a Tibetan Trek of Faith.
Yak Butter Blues is an exceptional
travelogue, richly illustrated with the author's photography, and destined to
become a Tibet travel classic.
The 2005 Independent Publisher "IPPY"
Awards attracted nearly 2,200 entries from over 1,500 publishers worldwide,
including all fifty U.S. states and eighteen foreign countries.
According to Independent Publisher, the "IPPY" Awards "are designed to
bring increased recognition to the deserving but often unsung titles published
by independent authors and publishers that are produced each year, and reward
those who exhibit the courage, innovation, and creativity to bring about change
in the world of publishing."
The awards will be presented at BookExpo
America in New York City on June 3rd.
The author is available for
interviews. Please contact Pilgrim's Tales.
For a preview of the book, or
to order, please visit: http://www.yakbutterblues.com.
Sample
Reviews:
"Brandon Wilson's writing is charged, alive, and a little
threatening. Yak Butter Blues flickers insistently like a flashbulb afterimage
in the mind long after the book is tucked away…." ~ Richard Bangs, Executive
Producer/Director of MSNBC Great Escapes, author and co-founder of Mountain
Travel/Sobek
"…A soaring travel diary. It places the reader in the thick
of the action every bit as well as Marco Polo transported Italians to China and,
as it seems to me, better than Lowell Thomas led readers in the dust of Lawrence
of Arabia…" ~ Joseph W. Bean, Book Reviewer, Maui Weekly
(Hawaii)
"Recommended for adventure travel and Tibetan culture
collections." - Library Journal
"A moving and emotional testimony, and a
travelogue that is the next most vivid experience to hiking upon the trail
oneself." ~ Midwest Book Review
"…a high-altitude tale of synchronicity,
divine providence, begging monks, trigger-happy Chinese soldiers and
dehydration." ~ Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (PA) from a feature article
Yak
Butter Blues: A Tibetan Trek of Faith by Brandon Wilson
288 pages, Travel
Narrative/Non-Fiction, 27 duo-tone photographs & maps;
Trade paperback -
ISBN: 1-933037-24-5 * $16.98;
Hardcover - ISBN: 1-933037-23-7 * $26.98
An
imprint of Pilgrim’s Tales.
Distributed by Ingram and Baker &
Taylor.
Yak Butter Blues: A Tibetan Trek of Faith (an imprint of
Pilgrim’s Tales/Heliographica) is available from bookstores, YakButterBlues.com,
Amazon.com, BN.com, Borders.com, Amazon-Canada, Blackwell's (UK), CDbox.it (EU),
McGovern & Prentice's New Zealand Online Books, Seekbooks.au (Australia), or
Amazon-Japan.
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