A Mountain In Tibet

Throughout the East there is a lagend of a great mountain at the centre of the world, where four great rivers have their source. Charles Allen traces this legend to Western Tibet where stands Mount Kailas, worshipped by Hindus and Buddhists alike as the home of their gods and the navel of the world. A Mountain in Tibet is a classic account of how succession of remarkable men penetrated the hostile wastelands beyond the Western Himalayas, culminating in the great age of discovery at the end of the Victorian era.