Tsewang Yishey Pemba was born on June 5, 1932 in Gyantse, Tibet. He is the author of Young Days in Tibet (1957), Idols on the Path (1966), and White Crane, Lend Me Your Wings (2017).

• Foreword, Dalai LamaChapter 1: Historical BackgroundChapter 2: Family BackgroundChapter 3: Early Glimmerings in Gyantse and Yatung, TibetChapter 4: Journey to LhasaChapter 5: Forbidden Baston or Open City: A Portrait of Lhasa Chapter 6: Three Years in LhasaChapter 7: The Dalai Lama and ReincarnationChapter 8: Tibetans and SexChapter 9: Lhasa to India: A Journey to SchoolChapter 10: A Tibetan Schoolboy During the British Raj: MetamorphosisChapter 11: Back Home to TibetChapter 12: Another Metamorphosis and Another Winter in YatungChapter 13: Farewell TibetEpilogue I: Return to Tibet in 2007Epilogue II: Return from Tibet BibliographyAbout the Author

Although from a household of British-Indian civil servants, Tsewang Yeshe Pemba´s Tibet as I Knew It escapes the colonial gaze of Western travelogues, and at the same time, it never succumbs to the romanticising descriptions prevalent in several exiled Tibetan memoirs. Pemba´s personal recollections and entertaining anecdotes bring back before the reader's eyes life in Tibet in the bygone, irretrievable era of the 1930s and 1940s. A priceless treasure trove of historical and factual information for the expert reader, the memoir will benefit general readers interested in Tibet's social life and cultural history before the communist takeover in 1950.