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Title: Trespassers on the Roof of the World
Condition: New
Subtitle: The Race for Lhasa
Author: Peter Hopkirk
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0719564492
EAN: 9780719564499
ISBN: 9780719564499
Publisher: John Murray Publishers Ltd
Genre: History
Release Date: 27/03/2006
Description: 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 centuries, and the race to reach Lhasa, Tibet's sacred capital. This epic, often harrowing tale, which ends with the Chinese invasion of 1950, draws on a colourful cast of gatecrashers from nine different countries. Among them were adventurous young officers on Great Game missions, explorers and mountaineers, mystics and missionaries. All took their lives in their hands, including three intrepid women. Some were never to return.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 198mm
Item Length: 134mm
Item Width: 19mm
Item Weight: 210g
Release Year: 2006

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