The Last Tibetan Kingdom

<p><strong><em>Having lost the anchor of home it was as though I needed to fix upon some other unchanging and seemingly permanent thing otherwise I would sink.</em></strong></p><p>When Rose Lane's family home is sold she loses more than bricks and mortar - she loses her last sense of belonging. Born into a family marked by silence and grief she has always been an outsider. Now untethered she turns her gaze to a distant place she's only read about: the medieval walled city of Lo Manthang high on the windswept Tibetan plateau in Nepal.</p><p>Reaching it means two weeks on horseback at an altitude of over 3000 metres - a seeminglyimpossible task for someone who tires after a short walk. But with her husband a local guide and a sceptical team around her Rose sets out to prove that she's stronger than she believes.</p><p>As she travels through a landscape steeped in history and spiritual mystery she witnesses a fading world: ancient monasteries crumbling traditions eroding climate and politics reshaping lives. Lo Manthang is changing <strong>- </strong>and so is she.</p><p><strong><em>The Last Tibetan Kingdom</em> is a story of physical and emotional endurance of confronting loss and of discovering that home isn't a place you keep - it's something you carry and sometimes something you must learn to let go of.</strong></p>