Canyon Sam’s SKY TRAIN Book Tour

Canyon Sam was a guest on NPR’s Diane Rehm show Tuesday February 23 with guest host Katty Kay. 88.5 WAMU. You can listen to the hour-long show at http://wamu.org/programs/dr/10/02/23.php#29478 ...

Canyon Sam

Canyon Sam is the author of Sky Train: Tibetan Women On the Edge of History (University of Washington Press, October 2009), winner of the 2010 PEN American Center’s Open Book Award. The Dalai Lama wrote the foreword for this groundbreaking book which provides the missing narrative of women in modern Tibetan history...

Writer and activist Canyon Sam

Writer and activist Canyon Sam uncovers the history of Tibet from the perspective of its women in a lyrical memoir that spans more than twenty years. Traveling on the newly opened, Beijing-to-Lhasa train in 2007 she crossed the Himalayas to find women from her earlier oral history project and stayed with the Tibetan...