Trespassers on the Roof of the World. The Race for Lhasa

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Peter Hopkirk

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Hidden behind the Himalayas, Tibet has always cast a powerful spell over travellers form the West. Peter Hopkirk recounts the forcible opening up of this medieval land during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the race between nine different countries to reach Lhasa, Tibet's sacred capital.