OFF THE SHELF
Running a Hotel on the Roof of the World
Alec Le Sueur
(Summersdale Publishers; 255 pages)
When 25-year-old Alec Le Sueur arrived in Lhasa in 1988 to manage the city's now defunct Holiday Inn, his goal was not as lofty as scaling Mt. Everest or reaching Buddhist enlightenment, but he quickly learned that achieving "maximum occupancy" in Tibet for the ubiquitous hotel chain was almost as ambitious. Le Sueur's five-year cross-cultural journey in this remote corner of China is recounted with a flippancy that rules out the possibility of an insightful portrait of Tibet, but it does offer lucid details about living in a place that Westerners tend to misunderstand.
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November 23, 1998
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OFF THE SHELF
When 25-year-old Alec Le Sueur arrived in Lhasa in 1988 to manage the city's now defunct Holiday Inn, his goal was not as lofty as scaling Mt. Everest
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