Trespassers on the Roof of the World: The Secret Exploration of Tibet

8 best books like Trespassers on the Roof of the World: The Secret Exploration of Tibet (Peter Hopkirk): The Snow Leopard, Kim, The Places in Between, Playing the Moldovans at Tennis, Lost Horizon, The Kingdom by the Sea, The Road to McCarthy: Around the World in Search of Ireland, Are We Nearly There Yet?: A Family's 8000-Mile Car Journey Around Britain

The Snow Leopard

Author	Peter Matthiessen
ISBN	0140255087

“The sun is roaring, it fills to bursting each crystal of snow. I flush with feeling, moved beyond my comprehension, and once again, the warm tears freeze upon my face. These rocks and mountains, all this matter, the snow itself, the air- the earth is ringing. All is moving, full of power, full of light.”...

Kim

Author	Rudyard Kipling
ISBN	0140183523

Kim is set in an imperialistic world; a world strikingly masculine, dominated by travel, trade and adventure, a world in which there is no question of the division between white and non-white.

Two men - a boy who grows into early manhood and an old ascetic priest, the lama - are at the center of...

The Places in Between

Author	Rory Stewart
ISBN	0156031566

In January 2002 Rory Stewart walked across Afghanistan-surviving by his wits, his knowledge of Persian dialects and Muslim customs, and the kindness of strangers. By day he passed through mountains covered in nine feet of snow, hamlets burned and emptied by the Taliban, and communities thriving...

Playing the Moldovans at Tennis

Author	Tony Hawks
ISBN	0312305184

It doesn't take much - "£100 is usually sufficient" - to persuade Tony Hawks to take off on notoriously bizarre and hilarious adventures in response to a bet. And so it is, a pointless argument with a friend concludes in a bet - that Tony can't beat all eleven members of the Moldovan soccer team at tennis....

Lost Horizon

Author

James Hilton

James Hilton’s bestselling adventure novel about a military man who stumbles on the world’s greatest hope for peace deep in Tibet: Shangri-La.

Hugh Conway saw humanity at its worst while fighting in the trenches of the First World War. Now, more than a decade later, Conway is a British...

The Kingdom by the Sea

Author

Paul Theroux

Oh Paul Theroux, why must you be so grouchy? I mean, you're traveling around England, one of the best countries on earth! Where's the joy? Where's the love? Where's the gratitude?

OK, so I now realize that I had unrealistic expectations for this book. I liked Theroux's memoir of his travels around...

The Road to McCarthy: Around the World in Search of Ireland

Author	Pete McCarthy
ISBN	0007162138

Pete McCarthy established one cardinal rule of travel in his bestselling debut, McCarthy's Bar: "Never pass a bar with your name on it." In this equally wry and insightful follow-up,his characteristic good humor, curiosity, and thirst for adventure take him on a fantastic jaunt around the world in...

Are We Nearly There Yet?: A Family's 8000-Mile Car Journey Around Britain

Author	Ben Hatch
ISBN	1849531552

The story of a madcap five-month family trip to write a travel guide—embracing the freedom of the open road with a spirit of discovery and an industrial supply of baby wipes

"Hurry up," I shout at Dinah, whilst on the overhead telly Ray Mears’ Survival is playing extraordinarily loudly...