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.
"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
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