The Rose of Tibet
by Lionel Davidson
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Author: Lionel DavidsonEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2011-05-10
ISBN: 057124291X
Number of pages: 316
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Book Reviews of The Rose of Tibet
Book Review: The book is very good but the Faber Find edition is an abomination
Summary: 3 Stars
The Rose of Tibet is a classic adventure book and thoroughly up to Lionel Davidson's high standards. This was one of his first and it remains as charming and unique as when I first read it about 25 years ago. The reason for writing this review is because of the paperback edition that I purchased through Amazon, a so-called Faber Find published by Faber and Faber of London. THIS EDITION IS A DISGRACE TO PUBLISHING. DO NOT PURCHASE IT!!!! It is replete with copy editing howlers, misspellings, omitted words etc. etc. This occurs throughout the book. While reading it, it became clear that this was not a new edition, freshly typeset. It became clear that Faber had scanned an old edition using OCR (optical character recognition) software, which software had a done an atrocious job of rendering the original edition. And to top it off, Faber had not "found" it necessary to proofread the output of the OCR software. This sin of omission is clear because the errors are obvious to any English speaker and occur throughout the book. SHAME ON YOU FABER! SHAME!
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