Trespassers on the Roof of the World: The Race for Lhasa by Peter Hopkirk
Trespassers on the Roof of the World: The Race for Lhasa

Peter Hopkirk

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

Peter Hopkirk

175 pages first pub 1982 (editions)

nonfiction history travel adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced
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For nineteenth-century adventures, Tibet was the prize destination, and Lhasa, its capital situated nearly three miles above sea level, was the grandest trophy of all. The lure of this mysterious land, and its strategic importance, made it inevita...

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