Every lost country

ISBN: 9780307373953 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0307373959 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: electronic resource remote 1 online resource : maps.
Edition: Vintage Canada ed., 2011.
Publisher: Toronto : Knopf Canada, 2011, c2010.

Heighton, Steven 1961- (Author).

Summary: Lewis Book, a doctor with a history of embroiling himself in conflicts, and his daughter, Sophie, travel to Nepal to join a climbing expedition. One evening, as Sophie sits on the border between China and Nepal, watching the sun set over the Himalayas, she spots a group of Tibetan refugees fleeing from Chinese soldiers. When shooting starts, Dr. Book rushes toward the ensuing melee, ignoring the objections of Lawson, the expedition leader, who doesn't want to get involved and spoil his chance to be the first climber to summit Kyatruk. Lawson is further enraged when Amaris, a Chinese-Canadian filmmaker recording the expedition, joins Book with her camcorder in hand. When the surviving Tibetansare captured just short of the border, Lawson and Sophie look...