Eccentric Explorers
Michael Buckley
Eccentric + Extreme - Get in the saddle for a rip-roaring ride as you follow in the tracks of ten eccentric explorers - each on a quest to unlock the secrets of reclusive Tibet. Are they nuts? Are they crackers? You bet.
You will find:
~mad Yorkshireman Maurice Wilson, who set his sights on being the first to climb Everest - and to speed things up, decided to try and crashland a biplane on the lower slopes…
~secret agent Eric 'the Hatter' Bailey, who shot his way through Tibet, but who could be easily distracted - in the most life-threatening of situations - by the sighting of a new butterfly species…
~the indomitable Alexandra David-Neel, an ex-opera singer who - when cornered by Tibetan bandits - let loose such a blood-curdling string of curses, they begged her to stop - fearing she was a wrathful demon…
List price: $27.95
"This book is a treasure-trove of tales from a far-away place, and an era erased by the shifting sands of time - and by Chinese invasion. Drawing from his own mad journeys in Tibet, Buckley brings out the best of both the majestic Tibetans and the Western explorers portrayed." Pat Morrow, first to climb the Seven Summits (Carstensz Pyramid variation), and veteran of six expeditions to the wilds of Tibet
Author: Michael Buckley ~ has travelled widely in Tibet, China and Central Asia. he has hitchhiked overland from Chengdu to Lhasa, trekked around Mount Kailash, mountain-biked from Lhasa to Kathmandu, and mountain-biked from Leh to Kashgar. In the course of numerous forays into the Tibetan world, the author has followed in the tracks of all the eccentric explorers profiled in this book - toiling over the same snowbound passes and riding with the same backside-numbing Tibetan saddles.