' (From Heaven Lake) has a charming timelessness, not simply due to the people on its pages but because it always rings true.' Financial Express 'Delightfully written and observed, a worthy successor to the accounts of the Victorian explorers and missionaries who tried to reach Lhasa nearly a century ago.

I found it hard to put down.' Peter Hopkirk of The Times on BBC Radio 'Utterly convincing and unlike other recent accounts of Tibetrevealing.

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the most engaging and unexpected travel book of the year.' Sunday Telegraph 'The perfect travel book.

' New Statesman 'The best writer of his generation.' The Times Click here to see Vikram Seth's Microsite (less)