The Land West of Long Mountain Project:

Dispatches from Gansu and the

Frontiers of Western China

-Travel Stories Out of Asia-

A Literary Guide and Travelogue
Chronicling the Lands of Western China,
Central Asia and the Greater Himalaya.

A Home for Peace Essays, too.

A Project by Joseph Modugno

Joseph Modugno is the creator of the Land West of Long Mountain Project.

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The Land West of Long Mountain is a project

born of the marriage of traveling and storytelling.

The project is rooted in the literary arts

and inspired by Joseph’s travels in Asia.

Its passion is for people and for place, its love for the lyrical,

and its earthy aspiration is toward the pursuit of peace and praise.

-Begin Here-

Dispatch I:
Welcome to the Land West of Long Mountain Project

To learn more about the Land West of Long Mountain,
you may begin here. Thank you and welcome.

Chorten with Prayer Flags and Snow Mountain against Cloud-Ribbed Blue Sky. Kham, Tibet.
Chorten with Prayer Flags and Snow Mountain
against Cloud-Ribbed Blue Sky
-Tibet-
Portrait of Windhorse Prayer Flag and Mt. Kanchenjunga at Dawn.
Seeking Snow Leopards and the Sublime:
Portrait of Windhorse Prayer Flag & Mount Kanchenjunga at Dawn
-Goechala Pass, Sikkim, Indian Himalaya-

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The Roof of the World
-Clouds over Karakul Lake, Pamir Highway-
Sundown on the High Plateau 
in the Land West of Long Mountain
Sundown on the High Plateau
in The Land West of Long Mountain

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