One of the preemminent experts on China and Tibet undertakes a strange odyssey into Tibetan fantasies, recounting the tales of Western adventureres, explorers and spiritualists who were bent on reaching Tibet and the holy city of Lhasa. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
Orville Schell, Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism, University of California, Berkeley, is the author of Mandate of Heaven, Discos and Democracy, The China Reader, and twelve other books. His articles have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, and Newsweek, among others. He lives with his wife and children in the San Francisco Bay Area.