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Last Seen in Lhasa: The story of an extraordinary friendship in modern Tibet

10 best books like Last Seen in Lhasa: The story of an extraordinary friendship in modern Tibet (Claire Scobie): Apples Are from Kazakhstan: The Land That Disappeared, Fried Eggs with Chopsticks: One Woman's Hilarious Adventure into a Country and a Culture Not Her Own, Behind the Wall: A Journey Through China, The Dragon in the Land of Snows: A History of Modern Tibet Since 1947, The Heart of the World: A Journey to the Last Secret Place, Along The Enchanted Way: A Romanian Story, In the Empire of Genghis Khan: An Amazing Odyssey Through the Lands of the Most Feared Conquerors in History, Tibet, Tibet: A Personal History of a Lost Land, The Island That Dared: Journeys in Cuba, The Ice Museum: In Search of the Lost Land of Thule

Apples Are from Kazakhstan: The Land That Disappeared
AuthorChristopher Robbins
ISBN0977743381
Closed to foreigners under Tsar and Soviet rule, Kazakhstan has remained largely hidden from the world, a remarkable feat for a country the size of Western Europe. Few would guess that Kazakhstan—a blank in Westerners' collective geography—turns out to be diverse, tolerant, and surprisingly...
Fried Eggs with Chopsticks: One Woman's Hilarious Adventure into a Country and a Culture Not Her Own
AuthorPolly Evans
ISBN0385339933
Polly Evans’s itinerary for China was simple: travel by luxurious high-speed train and long-distance bus, glide along the Grand Canal and hike up scenic mountains. Instead, the linguistically impaired adventurer found herself on a primitive sleeper-minibus where sleep was out of the question;...
Behind the Wall: A Journey Through China
AuthorColin Thubron
ISBN0099459329
Having learned Mandarin, and travelling alone by foot, bicycle and train, Colin Thubron sets off on a 10,000 mile journey from Beijing to Tibet, starting from a tropical paradise near the Burmese border to the windswept wastes of the Gobi desert and the far end of the Great Wall. What Thubron reveals...
The Dragon in the Land of Snows: A History of Modern Tibet Since 1947
AuthorTsering Shakya
ISBN0140196153
Based entirely on unpublished primary sources, Tsering Shakya's groundbreaking history of modern Tibet shatters the popular conception of the country as an isolated Shangri-la unaffected by broader international developments. Shakya gives a balanced, blow-by-blow account of Tibet's ongoing...
The Heart of the World: A Journey to the Last Secret Place
AuthorIan Baker
ISBN1594200270
The myth of Shangri-la originates in Tibetan Buddhist beliefs in beyul, or hidden lands, sacred sanctuaries that reveal themselves to devout pilgrims and in times of crisis. The more remote and inaccessible the beyul, the vaster its reputed qualities. Ancient Tibetan prophecies declare that the...
Along The Enchanted Way: A Romanian Story
AuthorWilliam Blacker
ISBN0719597900
When William Blacker first crossed the snow-bound passes of northern Romania, he stumbled upon an almost medieval world. There, for many years he lived side by side with the country people, a life ruled by the slow cycle of the seasons, far away from the frantic rush of the modern world. In spring as the...
In the Empire of Genghis Khan: An Amazing Odyssey Through the Lands of the Most Feared Conquerors in History
AuthorStanley Stewart
ISBN1592281060
Vivid, hilarious, and compelling, this eagerly awaited book takes its place among the travel classics. It is a thrilling tale of adventure, a comic masterpiece, and an evocative portrait of a medieval land marooned in the modern world. Eight and a half centuries ago, under Genghis Khan, the Mongols...
Tibet, Tibet: A Personal History of a Lost Land
AuthorPatrick French
ISBN1400034175
At different times in its history Tibet has been renowned for pacifism and martial prowess, enlightenment and cruelty. The Dalai Lama may be the only religious leader who can inspire the devotion of agnostics. Patrick French has been fascinated by Tibet since he was a teenager. He has read its history,...
The Island That Dared: Journeys in Cuba
AuthorDervla Murphy
ISBN1906011354
Take a three-generation family holiday in Cuba in the company of Dervla Murphy, her daughter, and three young granddaughters as they trek into the hills and along the coast as a family, camping out on empty beaches beneath the stars and relishing the ubiquitous Cuban hospitality. But this is no more...
The Ice Museum: In Search of the Lost Land of Thule
AuthorJoanna Kavenna
A legend, a land once seen and then lost forever, Thule was a place beyond the edge of the maps, a mystery for thousands of years. And to the Nazis, Thule was an icy Eden, birthplace of Nordic “purity.” In this exquisitely written narrative, Joanna Kavenna wanders in search of Thule, to Shetland, Iceland,...
True North: Travels in Arctic Europe
AuthorGavin Francis
ISBN1846970784
The stark, vast beauty of the remote Arctic Europe landscape has been the focus of human exploration for thousands of years. In this striking blend of travel writing, history and mythology, Gavin Francis offers a unique portrait of the northern fringes of Europe. His journey begins in the Shetland...
Tigers in Red Weather: A Quest for the Last Wild Tigers
AuthorRuth Padel
ISBN0802715443
Poet, writer, and descendant of Charles Darwin, Ruth Padel set out to visit a tropical jungle and wildlife sanctuary in India-- and her visit turned into a remarkable two-year journey through eleven countries in search of that most elusive and most beautiful animal: the tiger. Armed with her grandmother's...
The Dead Yard: Tales of Modern Jamaica
AuthorIan Thomson
ISBN0571227619
Jamaica used to be the source of much of Britain's wealth, an island where slaves grew sugar and the money flowed in vast quantities. It was a tropical paradise for the planters, a Babylonian exile for the Africans shipped to the Caribbean. It became independent in 1962.

Jamaica is now a country...
Wild Coast: Travels on South America's Untamed Edge
AuthorJohn Gimlette
ISBN0307272532
Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana are among the least-known places in South America: nine hundred miles of muddy coastline giving way to a forest so dense that even today there are virtually no roads through it; a string of rickety coastal towns situated between the mouths of the Orinoco and Amazon...
Street Without a Name: Childhood and Other Misadventures in Bulgaria
AuthorKapka Kassabova
ISBN1846271231
Kassabova was born in Sofia, Bulgaria and grew up under the drab, muddy, grey mantle of one of communism's most mindlessly authoritarian regimes. Escaping with her family as soon as possible after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, she lived in Britain, New Zealand, and Argentina, and several other places....
Let Our Fame Be Great: Journeys Among the Defiant People of the Caucasus
AuthorOliver Bullough
ISBN1846141419
In the afternoon of April 15, 2013, I was listening to the radio. An announcer interrupted the broadcast to report that there had been a blast at the Boston Marathon. He was careful not to attribute the bombing to any one group – because we are all afraid of appearing to stereotype one group as terrorists....
The Crossing Place: A Journey Among the Armenians
AuthorPhilip Marsden
ISBN0006376673
After centuries of prominence as a world power, Armenia has withstood every attempt during the 20th century to destroy it. With a name redolent both of dim antiquity and of a modern world and its tensions, the Armenians founded a civilization and underwent a diaspora that brought many of the great ideas...
Lost and Found in Russia: Lives in the Post-Soviet Landscape
AuthorSusan Richards
ISBN1590513487
After the fall of communism, Russia was in a state of shock. The sudden and dramatic change left many people adrift and uncertain—but also full of a tentative but tenacious hope. Returning again and again to the provincial hinterlands of this rapidly evolving country from 1992 to 2008, Susan Richards...
Eleven Minutes Late: A Train Journey to the Soul of Britain
AuthorMatthew Engel
ISBN0230708986
Britain gave railways to the world, yet its own network is the dearest (definitely) and the worst (probably) in Western Europe. Trains are deeply embedded in the national psyche and folklore—yet it is considered uncool to care about them. For Matthew Engel the railway system is the ultimate expression...
Tequila Oil
AuthorHugh Thomson
ISBN0753826941
'Try this tequila oil, Hugito. Just as the alcohol hits your stomach, the chilli will as well and blow it back into your brain. It will take your head off.' Explorer Hugh Thomson takes on Mexico.

It's 1979, Hugh Thomson is eighteen, far from home, with time to kill - and on his way to Mexico. When...
The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe
AuthorColm Tóibín
ISBN0679758550
Colm Toibin is one of Ireland's most distinguished young writers; he is also a lapsed Catholic. Yet over a succession of Holy Weeks, Toibin found himself traveling to places where Catholicism still possesses mystery and power, from Poland to Lithuania, from Lourdes to Santiago, and from Croatia to...
In the Time of Madness: Indonesia on the Edge of Chaos
AuthorRichard Lloyd Parry
ISBN0802142931
In the last years of the twentieth century, foreign correspondent Richard Lloyd Parry found himself in the vast island nation of Indonesia, one of the most alluring, mysterious, and violent countries in the world. For thirty-two years, it had been paralyzed by the grip of the dictator and mystic General...
Misadventure in the Middle East: Travels as a Tramp, Artist and Spy
AuthorHenry Hemming
An extraordinary and highly original account of one man's amazing journey. A young British artist spends a year traveling thoughout the Middle East, from the drug-fuelled ski slopes of Iran via secret beaches, palaces, police cells, nightclubs, torture chambers, brothels and studios. Young people...
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