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Trespassers on the Roof of the World - The Race for Lhasa (Paperback)
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Trespassers on the Roof of the World - The Race for Lhasa (Paperback)
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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.
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