Trespassers on the Roof of the World - Softcover

Pater Hopkirk

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0719564492 ISBN 13: 9780719564499

Publisher: Hodder Pb, 2006

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Peter Hopkirk travelled widely in the regions where his six books are set - Central Asia, the Caucasus, China, India and Pakistan, Iran, and Eastern Turkey. He worked as an ITN reporter, the New York correspondent of the oldDaily Express, and - for twenty years - onThe Times. No stranger to misadventure, he was twice held in secret police cells and was also hijacked by Arab terrorists. His works have been translated into fourteen languages.

Review:

'As 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 *

About this edition

• Publisher: Hodder Pb
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0719564492
• ISBN 13: 9780719564499
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320