TIBET: The Bradt Travel Guide
Michael Buckley
About the book
Fourth edition, Published 2018 by Bradt Travel Guides, UK. Paperback 392pp, 42 maps and plans, 16pp colour section with double-page colour map. Available on Amazon sites worldwide.
Also published in a digital version, as an ebook, available on Amazon Kindle and other platforms.
Websites for publishers: www.bradtguides.com (in UK)
www.globe-pequot.com (in USA)
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Tibet is one of the toughest and most confusing places in the world for the independent traveller to enter and tour. That's why you need a good guidebook. Access to any kind of information—particularly maps—is severely restricted by a watchful Chinese government. You have to take the information with you—or read it before you go. Tibet Travel Adventure Guide is packed with practical information on travel in Tibet as well as background on current problems, and thoroughly-researched sections on key temples and sights. The book tackles political issues head-on, and is particularly strong on up-to-date accurate maps. Detailed maps lay the groundwork for motoring across the roof of the world from Lhasa to Kathmandu, mountain-biking the plateau, or trekking around sacred Mount Kailash.
Reviews
Michael Buckley has a most attractive, easy style, speaking (he seems to be speaking) as one traveller to another. He is never patronising or pompous, he does not pretend to know what he doesn't know, and he does not flaunt his knowledge; among writers of guidebooks, those are rare achievements... This book is undoubtedly the one I would recommend first for reading before a visit to Tibet. For a visit to central or western Tibet it may also be the best single book to take.
—Tony Williams, travel co-ordinator, Australia Tibet Council
… the author has written an authoritative guidebook which gives one a genuine feel for the Tibet of today, covering such contentious issues as the Panchen Lama, population transfer, political prisoners, patriotic education and the new railway project. It is rare to find a guidebook that addresses the situation with so much honesty, and yet this is exactly the sort of explanation a traveller to Tibet needs.
—Zara Fleming, Tibet Society Magazine, Spring 2003
The challenge of living among the world's highest mountains still dominates the daily lives of Tibetans. Author Michael Buckley points the way to the areas where the Tibetans live nearly as they did a millennium ago, while helping visitors weave their way through the Chinese bureaucracy with minimal aggravation. This book will help travelers get the most from their precious time in Tibet.
—Armchair Traveler, Portland Oregonian, July 2003
On-the-road review:
The most thumbed of all my books on Tibet. I might have had some trouble with the yak butter tea, but Buckley made everything else about Tibet wonderfully palatable.
A must-read.
—Michael Palin, on the road in Tibet while making BBC TV series 'Himalaya'
This is one of the best of four different guidebooks that I've used on my visits to Tibet. The text provides an excellent introduction to the many fascinating aspects of Tibet and valuable practical information for a visit. Michael Buckley also gives easy-to-follow descriptions of temples and other sights. The superb maps had clarity and accuracy unmatched in the other guidebooks or even other publishers' fold-out maps.
—Bill Weir, American author who cycled from Lhasa to Kathmandu
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