TRESPASSERS ON THE ROOF OF THE WORLD: THE SECRET EXPLORATION OF TIBET Peter Hopkirk 1982 1st UK ed Hardcover DJ Near Fine-Fine 2 copies available (Hopkirk, Peter)

	Item #: OP677C-9522 TRESPASSERS ON THE ROOF OF THE WORLD: THE SECRET EXPLORATION OF TIBET Peter Hopkirk 1982 1st UK ed Hardcover DJ Near Fine-Fine 2 copies available By Hopkirk, Peter Price: $45.00 List Price: $50.00 You Save $5.00 (10%) Add to wish list Click Here For Related Selections
Detailed Product Description
London, 1982, 1st edition. 274 pp, b/w photos, 27 plates and 3 maps. Cream cloth hardcover with dust jacket. Near Fine to Fine. As hard as the Tibetans tried to keep out foreigners, the British, Russians and others tried to get in. The exciting story of all the pundits, explorers, spies and climbers who penetrated Tibet before 1950. This book tells the story - often bizarre, sometimes tragic, frequently hair-raising - of the prising open of Tibet by an inquisitive outside world. For no country has ever challenged man's imagination quite like this mysterious kingdom locked away in the heart of Central Asia. Inhabited by a people whose only wheel was the prayer-wheel, and ruled over by a God-king, Tibet has always been the stuff of travellers' dreams. In a world with few secrets left, here almost anything still seemed possible. This is the story of the forcible opening up of a land which only ever wanted to be left in peace - it is the narratives of gatecrashers, concludes the author in his Prologue. Hopkirk writes: ''This book is not a catalogue of every traveler who set out for Tibet from the 1860s onwards. However, I have included all those seriously intent on reaching Lhasa, as well as every trespasser of interest and importance. To avoid monotony, itineraries have had to be greatly compressed at times, while for the same reason I have given more space to some characters than others. But these travelers had one thing in common. All were unwelcome to the Tibetans. Even today, the package tourist is really a trespasser, for it is not the Tibetans but the Chinese who have invited him there.''
Other Items You Might Like
Similar Items Available Items From This Author Items From This Category SUMMIT MAGAZINE BACK ISSUES 1960-1969 See This List *By: Summit Magazine* Price $10.00 *- Item # JR154J-936* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart ALPINE JOURNAL 100s OF INDIVIDUAL ISSUES LISTED HERE! PAPERBACK, WRAPPERS or HARDCOVER ISSUES 1863-1986 *By: Alpine Club UK* Price $10.00 *- Item # JR207B* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart MAZAMA BULLETIN INDIVIDUAL BACK ISSUES 1905 - 1975 New issues recently added *By: Mazama Bulletin* Price $5.00 *- Item # JR225-127* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart ALL 14 EIGHT-THOUSANDERS Reinhold Messner 1988 1st ed Hardcover DJ Near Fine Multiple Copies Available [Not Signed] *By: Messner, Reinhold* Price $19.99 ~ Regular $50.00, You Save $30.01 (60%) *- Item # BK1014G-95013p* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart TRAIL AND TIMBERLINE 1962 - 1998 As Available Not a Set $5 each *By: Colorado Mountain Club* Price $5.00 ~ Regular $10.00, You Save $5.00 (50%) *- Item # JR727A-966* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart ALL 14 EIGHT-THOUSANDERS 1999 3rd ed Hardcover DJ Fine Multiple Copies Available SIGNED by Reinhold Messner *By: Messner, Reinhold* Price $69.99 ~ Regular $150.00, You Save $80.01 (53%) *- Item # BK1013-9506p* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart ALL 14 EIGHT-THOUSANDERS 1989 UK reprint Hardcover DJ Fine SIGNED by Reinhold Messner 2 Copies Available *By: Messner, Reinhold* Price $155.00 *- Item # BK1014C-9502p* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart CLIMBER and CLIMBER AND RAMBLER MAGAZINE UK (Not a set) $5 per issue As available *By: Climber and Rambler Magazine* Price $5.00 *- Item # JR251-121* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart ALL 14 EIGHT-THOUSANDERS 1988 1st US ed Hardcover DJ Near Fine SIGNED by Reinhold Messner *By: Messner, Reinhold* Price $145.00 ~ Regular $200.00, You Save $55.00 (28%) *- Item # BK1014E-932* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart THE CLIMBING ART MAGAZINE Individual Back Issues Number 1 to 31 *By: Climbing Art Magazine, Pat Ament* Price $5.00 *- Item # JR156-127* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart Sorry, we were unable find any similar items available by this author. TREK ACROSS INDONESIA Dorothy West Pelzer 1982 1st ed Softcover Fine 2 Copies Available *By: Pelzer, Dorothy West* Price $4.99 ~ Regular $20.00, You Save $15.01 (75%) *- Item # GB30-9612* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart THE VILLAIN: THE LIFE OF DON WHILLANS Jim Perrin 2005 True 1st UK ed Hardcover DJ Near Fine-Fine 3 Copies Available *By: Perrin, Jim* Price $65.00 ~ Regular $95.00, You Save $30.00 (32%) *- Item # BK1829B-9403* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart LET'S SEE THE HIGHLANDS A.A. Thomson 1931 1st ed Hardcover Near Fine *By: Thomson, A.A.* Price $4.99 ~ Regular $30.00, You Save $25.01 (83%) *- Item # OP2924-110* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart AMERICAN ALPINE JOURNAL 1993 Multiple copies available *By: American Alpine Club 1993 Journal* Price $5.00 ~ Regular $25.00, You Save $20.00 (80%) *- Item # AAJ1993-23319* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart CAMPFIRE CHILLERS [Fiction] E.M. Freeman 1980 Softcover Very Good *By: Freeman, E.M.* Price $15.00 ~ Regular $20.00, You Save $5.00 (25%) *- Item # OP7085-939* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart VICTORY OVER K2: SECOND HIGHEST PEAK IN THE WORLD Ardito Desio 1956 1st US edition Hardcover DJ Fine SIGNED by Lino Lacedelli and Achille Compagnoni *By: Desio, Ardito* Price $1045.00 *- Item # OP470AB-936* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart THE VOYAGE OF THE CHALLENGER Eric Linklater 1971 Hardcover DJ Near Fine-Fine *By: Linklater, Eric* Price $19.99 ~ Regular $99.95, You Save $79.96 (80%) *- Item # PL6284-932* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart CLIMBERS: SCALING THE HEIGHTS WITH THE SPORT'S ELITE Steve Boga 1994 Softcover Multiple Copies Available *By: Boga, Steve* Price $0.99 ~ Regular $14.95, You Save $13.96 (93%) *- Item # BK156-96718* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart THE GEOGRAPHICAL MAGAZINE VOL. I NO. 1 MAY 1935 Softcover Very Good (First Issue) *By: Royal Geographical Society* Price $35.00 *- Item # OP7729-121* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart A RIDE TO KHIVA: TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES IN CENTRAL ASIA Fred Burnaby 1984 reprint Hardcover Fine *By: Burnaby, Fred* Price $21.00 *- Item # OP1546AB-895* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart