From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet

Do you remember a picnic or a party in your past that was so delightful that it has always stayed with you? It might not have been profound or life changing or anything like that, but it must been something you look back with a 'wow, what fun that was!' and cherish the thought?. This book is exactly like that. Travelling through some of the remotest terrain in the world and facing some red-tape, Seth simply wrote down his... Read Full Review

Much has been said about travel broadening vision, and the journal of a traveller who has a universal view of life makes a rich reading experience. From Heaven Lake is more than a travel book that traverses the length and breadth of a place with smatterings of history, geography and local culture - It is a verbal album of direct images that personify the soul of the areas. The book contains relatively little on the culture,... Read Full Review

Fascinating, superbly written account of travels around China. Should be of great interest to those who intend to venture to any of the destination Seth treks to. Amazing contrast of life in China - now & then. Stark differences of difficulties Seth encountered in his travels back in the early 1980s to the ease with which one can travel around China these days is telling of how far China has come in the past 1 to 2... Read Full Review

An unforgettable journey that leads you through the most unknown and misterious region of Asia. Vikram Seth's style is incredibly fresh. You can't miss it.

I am not a reader of travel books, but could not put this one down. Seth not only was, by hitchhiking through forbidden areas, able to see and experience things way off the usual tourist agenda but was then able to turn his remarkable observations and astonishing prose into an unforgettable read. His journey begins when as a student in China he decides to break away from his keepers and exit the country through forbidden... Read Full Review