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ACROSS THE TIBETAN PLATEAU

Friday April 11,2008

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By Robert L Fleming Jr, Dorje Tsering and Lui Wulin, WW Norton, £28

ALTHOUGH currently in the news for all the wrong reasons, Tibet is one of the most breathtaking natural environments on Earth.

Ringed on three sides by mountains and desert to the north, it's sheer inaccessibility kept it cut off and unchanged for hundreds of years.

But the beauty and diversity of this region is staggering. With the Himalayas to the south and west and the Taklamakan Desert to the north the plateau's terrain includes tropical jungle and freezing tundra.

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Its rivers gather water as they flow south and turn into India's major waterways and its countryside teems with vast herds and solitary specimens of some of the least known wildlife on the planet.

Conservationists and writers Robert L Fleming Jr, Dorje Tsering and Lui Wulin have drawn on their work protecting this region to produce Across the Tibetan Plateau (WW Norton,£28).

Packed with information about its eco-systems, flora and fauna the book is illustrated with a stunning array of photographs, many taken by the authors themselves, and opens the door to life on the Roof of the World.

Across the Tibetan Plateau By Robert Fleming jr, Dorje Tsering and Lui Wulin published by Norton, £28