- Taschenbuch: 288 Seiten
- Verlag: Kodansha Intl; Auflage: Reprint (15. April 1995)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 1568360509
- ISBN-13: 978-1568360508
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 21,4 x 14,6 x 2,2 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 4.3 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (3 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 341.402 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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"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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For nineteenth-century adventures, Tibet was the prize destination, and Lhasa, its capital situated nearly three miles above sea level, was the grandest trophy of all. The lure of this mysterious land, and its strategic importance, made it inevitable that despite the Tibetans' reluctance to end their isolation, determined travelers from Victorian Britain, Czarist Russia, America, and a half dozen other countries world try to breach the country's high walls.
In this riveting narrative, Peter Hopkirk turns his storytelling skills on the fortune hunters, mystics, mountaineers, and missionaries who tried storming the roof of the world. He also examines how China sought to maintain a presence in Tibet, so that whenever the Great Game ended, Chinese influence would reign supreme. This presence culminated in the Chinese invasion of Tibet in the 1950s, and in a brief afterword, Hopkirk updates his compelling account of "the gatecrashers of Tibet" with a discussion of Tibet today-as a property still claimed and annexed by the Chinese.
In this riveting narrative, Peter Hopkirk turns his storytelling skills on the fortune hunters, mystics, mountaineers, and missionaries who tried storming the roof of the world. He also examines how China sought to maintain a presence in Tibet, so that whenever the Great Game ended, Chinese influence would reign supreme. This presence culminated in the Chinese invasion of Tibet in the 1950s, and in a brief afterword, Hopkirk updates his compelling account of "the gatecrashers of Tibet" with a discussion of Tibet today-as a property still claimed and annexed by the Chinese.
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"In the heart of Central Asia, buttressed by the highest mountains on earth, soars the immense natural fortress of Tibet." Lesen Sie die erste Seite
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Although it's full of educational historic detail, Trespassers reads like an adventure novel because of Hopkirk's clearly evident passion for his subject and his anecdotal presentation. Hopkirk's fascinating stories about individual adventurers and their techniques gives us a feel not just for what happened during the time and place that is his subject, but also what it felt like. We get not just fact but flavor.
Hopkirk's enthusiastic writing style is only matched by the depth of his knowledge. One cannot help becoming as fascinated by the Western exploration of Tibet as Hopkirk himself is. This is the best of Hopkirk's impressive body of work on the history of the high Central Asian lands, but all of them are worth reading and educate the reader about what is, in the United States, an obscure area of the world. And they're all so fun to read it didn't even feel like they were good for me!
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This book presents vivid stsories that present the background to modern problems in Tibet -- I found it to be well-researched: by that I mean, the primary resources were listed so that I could easily identify the original documents if I wanted to read them. I knew almost nothing about why I should care about Tibet's problems -- I feel now that I have a good background and sense of the issues. The book captures your imagination, as well. It's a very good book for anyone interested in the background to this modern problem and for those who like to visit far away places without leaving their arm chairs. It is so well written you don't feel like you are reading a history lesson; it seems more like a mystery-romance-adventure book.
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I have read other reviews of this book that describe it as the fact behind the fiction of Kipling's classic spy tale, "Kim"--an accurate but incomplete description in my mind. This book provides an excellent narrative of the pundits and explorers who--with motives ranging from geopolitical to evangelical--raced for almost a century to be the first Westerner to breach the gates of Lhasa, and goes a long way towards explaning the mystery and romance that Tibet has held for Westwern "civilization."
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