Aditya's review
From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet by Vikram Seth
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 describes things. Overall though its a great achievement for the author to have done this 25 years ago. I wonder how much of what he mentions in the book is changed now..
