274pp, octavo, hc w/jacket, tight binding, clean throughout, clean boards with sharp corners, tanned and soiled endpapers, small stain to upper corner of rear endpaper, jacket is mildly worn and soiled but complete. first J.P. Tarcher edition. Seller Inventory # 150166

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Title: Trespassers on the Roof of the World: The ...

Publisher: J.P Tarcher, Los Angeles

Publication Date: 1983

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Good+

Edition: 1st thus.

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Synopsis:

Portrays the experiences of nineteenth and twentieth-century spies, soldiers, explorers, missionaries, mystics, and mountain climbers as they traveled through Tibet to reach the city of Lhasa

About the Author:

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.

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