Travels in Mongolia China and Tibet

One of the world's greatest explorers, Father Évariste Régis Huc arrived in China in 1839. Father Evariste and a companion, Father Gabet, then decided to try and reach the very heart of the Buddhist world, Lhasa. Fathers Evariste's is a vivid account of Mongolia, China and Tibet over a hundred years ago, where the two priests journeyed in lands then forbidden to foreigners, disguised as Buddhist lamas. Theirs was an extraordinary, epic journey. In the whole of the nineteenth century only one other European made it. The Chinese, highly suspicious of British imperial intentions, had barred all access from India and so Huc and Gabet went the hard way, across several thousand miles of desert, ice, mountain slopes and gorges: 'The Tibetan wilderness is the most terrible place imaginable. Men froze to death in the saddle. They saw a whole herd of wild bison frozen solid, caught in rapidly freezing water while trying to swim a river. That they ever reached Lhasa was a miracle. "One of The world's greatest classic travel books, even after over a hundred years it makes compelling reading, anyone visiting Tibet should read this Book" Telegraph NewspaperHuc, Régis Évariste is the author of 'Travels in Mongolia China and Tibet', published 2007 under ISBN 9781843560036 and ISBN 1843560038.