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Paperback. Pub the Date: October 2006 Pages: 320 in Publisher: HarperOne Beyond the House of the false Lama.. Now in paperback. Traces Crane's adventures as a writer. Wanderer and anarchic but still failing student of Zen. It begins in. 1996 at the edge of the Gobi Desert in Inner Mongolia. where he and his teacher and friend. Zen Master Tsung Tsai. are forced by a sandstorm to end their quest to find the lost temple at Two Wolf Mountain. It continues with a harrowing. near disastrous attempt to deliver a ratty. 58 foot ferrous cement sailboat to Granada. Setting sail from Key Largo into the heart of hurricane season. with a crew of eccentrics and outlaws. led by the infamous Captain Bananas. They run with a disintegrating sailboat into the perfect squall. The ...