A Mountain in Tibet: The Search for Mount Kailas and the Sources of the Great Rivers of Asia

by Charles Allen

Book Overview

The story of Charles Allen's search for the legendary mountain at the centre of the world culminating in his discovery of the West Tibetan mountain, Kailas. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0708823513
• ISBN13: 9780708823514
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: TIME WARNER PAPERBACKS
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Remarkable achievement

It is a rare gem of a book which includes the history starting from mythological sources of Tibetan buddhism, Hinduism, Bon-po, going to the lost and forgotten heroes and travellers including the Pundits, the great game and the likes of Hedin, Younghusband and others into Tibet and stories circling the Sacred Mountain of Kailash. This book has a depth to touch not just a historian, specializing in travel accounts or history of India and Tibet, but also touches a pilgrim and a traveller to quite an extent. When I finally stood in front of that extra-ordinary mountain after a land journey of more than thousand miles on a rugged terrain of Tibet, I could remember the echoes from the pages from this book and feel those times and histories still circling that amazing mountain.