Trespassers on the Roof of the World
the race for lhasa
$39.44
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
10 May 2006
Summary
Trespassers on the Roof of the World: The Opening of Tibet
No other land has captured man’s imagination quite like Tibet. Hidden away behind the highest mountains on earth, and ruled over by a mysterious God-king, it was for centuries a land forbidden to all outsiders.
In this remarkable and ultimately tragic narrative, Peter Hopkirk recounts the forcible opening up of this medieval Buddhist kingdom by inquisitive Western travellers during the nineteenth and twentieth centur…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780719564499 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0719564492 |
| Author: | Peter Hopkirk |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | John Murray Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 10 May 2006 |
| Weight: | 218g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 134mm x 19mm |
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A marvellous book, well researched and beautifully written - a treat for armchair explorers everywhere - New StatesmanAs vivid and gripping as a John Buchan novel - Evening Standard
A marvellous book, well researched and beautifully written - a treat for armchair explorers everywhere - New Statesman
As vivid and gripping as a John Buchan novel - Evening StandardAbout The Author
Peter Hopkirk
Peter Hopkirk has travelled widely in the regions where his six books are set - Central Asia, the Caucasus, China, India and Pakistan, Iran, and Eastern Turkey. He has worked as an ITN reporter, the New York correspondent of the old Daily Express, and - for twenty years - on The Times. No stranger to misadventure, he has twice been held in secret police cells and has also been hijacked by Arab terrorists. His works have been translated into fourteen languages.
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