- Paperback: 204 pages
- Publisher: Mountain N 'Air Books (21 Oct 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1879415313
- ISBN-13: 978-1879415317
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 15.3 x 1.2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,638,343 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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In 1897 Henry Savage Landor headed north from Bombay, India into uncharted territory to explore the magnificent mountains and wild glacial rivers of Tibet, trying to reach the Providence of Lhassa deep into the Forbidden Land without the benefit of maps, or previous knowledge of history or local customs.
Accompanied by a few coolies, hired locally, carrying the best photographic and scientific equipment money could buy, he went off onto what was to be the adventure of a lifetime. He battled with gangs of trail robbers, exchanged gunfire with the Tibetans and fell prisoner of the local warlords, all while charting and mapping the territory, taking photographs and recording scientific observations.
This book was last published in 1910. This is a reprint for those who enjoy reading adventures of yesteryears.
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Present arms! .... with a cricket stump, 19 Aug 2005
By M. Mcfarland - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: An Explorer's Adventures in Tibet: A 1987 Epic (Paperback)
Landor's memoirs may be the pulp fiction of Victorian travel writing, but it doesn't come much better than this fast paced account of his quest to become the first white boy in Lhasa. An Explorer's Adventures recounts his stiff-upper-lipped travels in Tweed across Himalayan mountain passes with a ragbag posse of helpers, lepers and bandits who often threatened to mutiny when faced by ugly women and men with long tongues.There are inumerable tales of scrapes with local chiefs whose goals in life were to keep Johnny Foreigner out of Tibet with the promise of beheading if they didn't succeed. How many of Landor's tales are true we'll never really know, particularly his miraculous escape from beheading, but it's a cracking read and another great glimpse into the minds of men from yesteryear.
A word of warning though. Political correctos with no sense of humour or perspective should steer well clear. This is blatant white man's burden stuff and only those willing to set their moral timepiece to London, 1897 will get anything out of this.
It goes without saying that fans of Hopkirk and Flashman should head straight for Checkout. A hoot!
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A true exploring expedition, 31 Jan 2001
By anoop sharma - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: An Explorer's Adventures in Tibet: A 1987 Epic (Paperback)
Savage Landor attempts to Reach the Province of Lhassa around 1897 at a time when this part of the world existed only in the fables and stories in the western world.The path to Lhassa was ridden with bandits who lived on lootings.It used to take eight months from Lassa to Peking in those days and people used to travel in groups for fear of these bandits.That was a reason why Landor chose to call this a forbidden land.But Landor also tried to find the source of the Great Indian rivers ie Indus,Ganges and Bhramaputra.He also travels to Burma which at that time is considered almost inaccessible due to its inhospitable conditions.The book provides a lot of insights of the people of the land ,the beleifs they carried at that time and their weird customs and rites.But Landor has his way to control things around him and goes to lenghts like at one point to present a person with a human skull which he boils in milk to make it white in appearence.
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