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    <body><![CDATA[Vikram Seth's “From Heaven Lake: travels in Sinkiang and Tibet” is an unusual travel book. Steering clear of all Lonely Planet Guides and regular travel routes, Seth manages to sketch a picture of China, Tibet, and Nepal from a hungry (quite literally) student traveller’s perspective. He was a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9186559">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A real gem of a travel book that I somehow overlooked until now.<br/><br/>My own trip to Tibet in 1998 was nowhere near as ambitious or arduous as this.  Makes me a little jealous that I never learned Mandarin well enough to ride as a passenger in these Chinese trucks that Seth takes throughout th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61243600">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the first in the long list of travel accounts that I want to read before heading off on my trip. I enjoyed Vikram Seth's 'A Suitable Boy' and fully expected to enjoy this account of his travels through Xinjiang and Tibet in the early 1980s. His account was fairly dry in places but it was int...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6061603">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[really enjoyed this travelogue through Tibet in a difficult recent past.. great writer  and real feel of the adventure of it all being affected by the plight of the Tibetans he meets]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Easy reading about a difficult trip.  In 1981, Vikram Seth (who later would write &quot;A Suitable Boy&quot; left Nanking University to travel through Tibet back to his family in India.  Bad route and floods made for a challenging trip - but he also grew to know the truckdrivers who he traveled with...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2789326">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A trip I dream of taking but know I never will. Mr. Seth shares his experiences across China, Tibet, and Nepal, and I am grateful to have gone along, if only as a reader.  <br/>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[  <p>`The perfect travel book' New Statesman  <p>Hitch-hiking, walking, slogging through rivers and across leech-ridden hills, Vikram Seth travelled through Sinkiang and Tibet to Nepal:  from Heaven Lake to the Himalayas.  By breaking away from the reliable routes of organised travel, he transformed his journey into an unusual and intriguing exploration of one of the world's least known areas.  <p>'Vikram Seth is already the best writer of his generation' Daniel Johnson, The Tmes</p></p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Currently resting in New Delhi after having just retraced most of Seth's route from Qinghai to Tibet to Nepal to India. What an extraordinary young man he must have been, to have studied Mandarin in Nanjing in his 20s.  The roads in Tibet, as you can imagine, are no longer in the state they were whe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1971728">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A good read for someone like me who does not know a lot of Chinese history and about its culture. There are some excellent descriptions of places and keen observations of Chinese and Tibetan peoples. Since, the books comes from the author's diary at times there are differences in how much detail he ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37791">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[...an anchronistic account I would say,the sights and sounds of China have definitely changed. But I am not sure the same can be said about Tibet...nevertheless it beautifully captures both the people and the landscape.  <br/><br/>A compelling account and powerful yet simple prose. How many writer...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7518750">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[a great travel memoir about hitchhiking from china to india via tibet. vikram seth is kind of amazing. if i remember right he got his start as an economist and became a poet and a novelist. he wrote this book somewhere between economist and poet, and that's pretty much how it reads.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I love Seth's A Suitable Boy and could read it over and over. But this book--about his travelling home to India after studying in Nanjing--is just so-so. However, reading about early 1980s China is interesting--things have loosened up a lot since then (although maybe not in Tibet!)]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Made me want to go on a long and aimless roadtrip, get in trouble with the police, and make strange friends.  Either that, or I wanted to go make friends with Vikram Seth and bring him a big pot of vegetarian spaghetti or something.  He's great on an aesthetic level, too.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A charming travel journal. This looks to be the first book by an author whose novels I've enjoyed quite a bit.  In 1983, I suspect the journey he took would qualify as extreme travel - today, not so much. Its a fine book and I enjoyed it. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A little dated to be sure, but a pretty good read and look at the difficulties of traveling in China and dealing with its massive bureaucracy.<br/><br/>He also has a difficult time traveling in Tibet, with flooded roads, or no roads at all.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[He hiked, by himself, through Tibet, without equipment. Just as if he was strolling. Very John Muir.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was interesting - it was a gift from a dear friend before my trip to India and Nepal.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Still one of the best travel books ever written, from the writer of A Suitable Boy!!!]]></body>
    
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