Tibet Overview: Introduction

Why visit Tibet | Why travel overland | A word of caution | Travel Books

Classic travel (many recent editions available):
  • A Conquest of Tibet, Sven Hedin (1934)
  • A Journey to Lhasa and Central Tibet, Sarat Chandra Das (1902)
  • Bayonets to Lhasa, Peter Fleming (1961)
  • Captured in Tibet, Robert Ford (1957)
  • First Russia then Tibet, Robert Byron (1933)
  • Lost Horizon, James Hilton (1933)
  • My Journey to Lhasa, Alexandra David-Neel (1927)
  • Seven Years in Tibet, Heinrich Harrer (1953)
  • Tintin in Tibet, Hergé (1958)
  • A Mountain in Tibet, Charles Allen (1982)
  • From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet, Vikram Seth (1986)
  • Trespassers on the Roof of the World: The Secret Exploration of Tibet, Peter Hopkirk (1982)


Prayer flags adorn the top
of most mountain passes