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HIGHLAND LETTERS

A place comes into focus when roads, people and language are allowed to meet.
An editorial direction for the site, not a direct quotation.
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FOUNDING CULTURAL EDITOR

Andre Du

As an experienced writer on Tibet, Andre continues to write about Tibet through reporting, books, translation and travel. Highland Letters will bring that continuing body of work together with first-person accounts from the road and careful cultural context.

Editorial focusTibet and the high countryContributionWriting and cultural reviewFirst articlesIn development

THE EDITORIAL FIELD

What is worth keeping beyond the itinerary?

PEOPLE

Lives and choices in the high country

Let people explain a place in their own particularity, rather than using them as decoration.

LANGUAGE

How translation changes understanding

Explore the differences carried by names, contexts and ways of speaking.

ROADS

Travel practice and changing places

Record how roads connect places—and how they alter them.