by Peter Hopkirk · Oxford Paperbacks · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780192851321
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«Trespassers on the Roof of the World: The Race for Lhasa» is a historical essay by Peter Hopkirk, published by Oxford Paperbacks in paperback.
Peter Hopkirk recounts how travellers, spies, soldiers and missionaries from Victorian Britain, Tsarist Russia and the United States tried to open Tibet and reach Lhasa between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. After decades of struggles for influence, the Chinese invasion of the 1950s put an end to that era and consolidated control of the country.
The English-language edition of 288 pages, originally published in 1982, includes bibliography and index.
Work for readers interested in the history of Tibet, exploration and imperial rivalries.
Peter Stuart Hopkirk was a British journalist, author and historian who wrote six books about the British Empire, Russia and Central Asia.
