Trespassers on the Roof of the World: The Secret Exploration of Tibet - Hardcover

Peter Hopkirk

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0874772575 ISBN 13: 9780874772579

Publisher: J. P. Tarcher, 1983

Synopsis

Portrays the experiences of nineteenth and twentieth-century spies, soldiers, explorers, missionaries, mystics, and mountain climbers as they traveled through Tibet to reach the city of Lhasa

About this title

About the Author:

PETER HOPKIRK is the author of Like Hidden Fire: The Plot to Bring Down the British Empire, Trespassers on the Roof of the World: The Race for Lhasa, and two other books. A staff writer for the Times of London for nineteen years, five as its chief reporter, he is a Middle and Far East specialist.

Review:

"Hopkirk’s wonderfully vivid book describes the...always thrilling efforts of explorers, spies...to plumb Tibet’s secrets."—Philadelphia Inquirer
"Hopkirk handles the storytelling with infectious enthusiasm...[with] great and obvious love for the subject, and is one of those British writers who cannot write an awkward of boring sentence."—Bruse Colman, The San Francisco Chronicle
"A lament for a country that, wanting only to be left alone, was hauled unceremoniously into the twentieth century, and is now an unwilling satellite of Communist China."—Richard E. Nicholls, The Philadelphia Inquirer

About this edition

• Publisher: J. P. Tarcher
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0874772575
• ISBN 13: 9780874772579
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 274