Search Results: Tibet from Bob Worth Mountain Books

William Blackwood & Sons, 1875. 1st ed Good + as ex library with a few small stamps and previous repairs no dw signed dedication by 'Wm Cecil & A Slingsby' dated 1905. Does not appear to be as flamboyant as Cecil's writing so may be his wife who signed it. Observations on a journey from Chinese Tibet to the Indian Caucasus through the upper valleys of the Himalaya, complete with linen backed map in rear pocket, [Neate W95]

Harvill Secker, 2011. 1st UK ed VG+ in VG dw. an inspirational account of a grandmother's life in Tibet before the occupation, written by her grand-daughter, who had a Tibetan mother and a Swiss father

Collins, 1974. 1st ed VG in VG dw. the story of Lobsang Thondup, a Chinese who became Tibetan, also swapped sides in the Chinese Revolution, had an affair with Tibet's only woman 'living buddha', imprisoned, escaped, fled to Bhutan.

Trackless Sands Press, 1996. 1st ed VG pb. Wimmel examines the work of eight key parties in the exploration of Central Asia, including Sven Hedin, Younghusband, David-Neel, Chapman Andrews, Maillart & Fleming etc

The Overlook Press, 1996. 1st ed VG in VG dw. account of a journey through eastern Tibet by an American adventurer and martial arts pilgrim, searching for inspiration for her karate and knowledge of the Khampas

Ernest Press, 1994. 1st ed VG in VG dw. an expedition to the remote region of Arka Tagh, Turkestan, between the Taklamakan Desert in Xinjiang and the north of Tibet

Thames & Hudson, 1997. 1st ed VG pb. account of the art of Tibet and how it's intertwined with religion

RU, 1962 reprint. RU ed VG in VG dw. first full account of the British invasion of Tibet in 1904

Henry Holt & Co, 2001. 1st US ed G++ as ex library with usual stamps and marks and missing FEP in VG dw . Ridgeway promised his climbing partner as he lay dying after an avalanche in Tibet, that he would look after his daughter, Asia. Some years later Ridgeway took Asia to see where her father had died.

Labyrynth Press, 2007. 1st ed VG in VG dw. over 500 pages, autobiography covering Before, During and After "Seven Years in Tibet", includes expeditions to Tibet, Bhutan, Peru, Ecuador, Eiger, Carstenz Pyramid

National Geographic, 2004. 1st US ed VG in VG dw. trekking across Tibet in search of the elusive and endangered Chiru antelope

Simon & Schuster, 1990. 1st ed VG in VG dw. fiction: a thriller set in Nepal and Tibet, involving an American mountaineer, an American woman and a Tibetan monk, all involved in the struggle to free Tibet from Chinese oppression, written by a well known Australian mountaineer

Century Publishing, 2003. 1st UK ed VG pb. fiction: thriller set in the Tibetan wilderness, involving stolen Tibetan artefacts and a western oil venture

Allen & Unwin, 1966. 1st ed G++ as small split to top of spine no dw. reminiscences of Lama Trungpa and his escape from Tibet to India

Collins, 1970. 1st ed VG in G+ dw. fiction: a tale of espionage in India and Tibet [Neate X242]

Portrait, 2007 reprint. 2007 reprint VG pb. the true story of Soname's flight to freedom, born during the Chinese occupation she moved to Lhasa where she became a child slave, then, aged 16, with two monks for company, she escaped by trekking for 6 weeks over the high Himalaya to Dharamsala in Northern India

Preface Publishing, 2009. 1st ed VG in VG dw. fiction: thriller set in Tibet

Adventure Press, 2000. 1st ed VG in VG dw. account of a white-water expedition to Tibet's forbidden river, the Tsangpo

Bloomsbury, 2004. 1st ed VG+ in VG dw. the story of Tibet's 17th Karmapa, escaping from Chinese occupied Tibet to re-appear in India

Grafton Books, 1987 reprint. 1st ed reprint VG in VG dw. travels (often in disguise and illegally) through southern Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Tibet to China