Trespassers on the roof of the world : the race for Lhasa / Peter Hopkirk.
By: Hopkirk, Peter
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TextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2001Description: 284 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cmSubject(s): Tibet (China) -- Discovery and exploration | Tibet (China) -- HistoryLOC classification: DS786 | .H6177 2001| Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Originally published: London: John Murray, 1982.
Tibet - the forbidden land; the unholy spies of Captain Montgomerie; with prayer-wheel and sextant to Lhasa; panning for gold on the roof of the world; the race for the Holy city begins; four dreams of Lhasa; death of an explorer; the bizarre adventure of Henry Savage Landor; the nightmare of Susie Rijnhart; Lhasa - at last; "Golden Domes like Tongues of Fire"; the riddle of the snows; Lhasa lowers its guard; jumping into the land of God; red guards in Lhasa.
In ultimately tragic narrative, Peter Hopkirk recounts the forcible opening up of Tibet during the 19th and 20th centuries, and the race between agents, soldiers, missionaries, mountaineers, explorers, and mystics from nine different countries to reach Lhasa, Tibet's sacred capital.
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