Search Results for ‘Tibet (Xizang Zizhiqu Province)’, ‘Travel Writing & Other Literature’, ‘Travel Writing’ - 9 matches found

Danziger's Travels

After walking and hitch-hiking through southern Turkey and the ayatollah's Iran, Danziger entered Afghanistan illegally in the wake of a convoy of Chinese weapons and spent two months dodging Russian...

Freedom in Exile

The Dalai Lama's autobiography should leave no one in doubt of his humility and genuine compassion. Written without the slightest hint of pretence, the exiled leader of Tibet recounts his life, from...

Heartlands: Travels in the Tibetan World

On a quest to come to grips and understand Tibet's culture, Michael Buckley leaves Lhasa and the Autonomous region of Tibet, where Chinese occupation has stifled Tibetan culture and visits other places...

Seven Years in Tibet

Heinrich Harrer, already a famous mountaineer and Olympic ski champion, was caught by the outbreak of the Second World War while climbing in the Himalayas. Being Austrian he was interned in India. By...

The Search for Shangri-La: A Journey into Tibetan History

The idea of a hidden refuge, a paradise far from the stresses of modern life, has universal appeal. In 1932 the writer James Hilton coined the word "Shangri-La" to describe such a place, when he gave...

Tibet, Tibet

"Tibet, Tibet" is a personal history of this disputed land - not the mysterious mountain kingdom of lamas and gold-roofed monasteries of the Western imagination, but a real place with a tumultuous past...

Younghusband

In this travelling biography, Patrick French tells the story of the man who held the world record for the 300-yard dash, discovered a new overland route from China to India, and organized the early...

River Dog

Faithfully accompanied by Bhaiti, his Indian pi-dog, Shand attempts to complete a journey from the beginnings of the Brahmaputra in Tibet to its delta in the Bay of Bengal. A wonderful account of an...

Tibetan Foothold

In July 1963 Dervla arrives in Delhi after having cycled for thousands of miles (if you want to know more about that part of the story, read her first book Full Tilt). The weather is too hot to cycle...