Bells of shangri-La (Scholars, Spies, Invaders in Tibet)

Bells of Shangri-La brings to vivid life the journeys and adventures of Kinthup, Sarat Chandra Das and theirs, including Eric Bailey, an officer who was part of the British invasion of Tibet in 1903, and lkiho later followed in Kinthup's footsteps to the sangpo. Weaving biography with precise historical knowledge, and the memories of his own treks over some of the trails covered by these travelers, Parimal Bhattacharya writes in the great tradition of Peter Hopkirk and Peter Matthiessen to create a sparkling, unprecedented work of non-fiction.

PARIMAL BHATTACHARYA is an associate professor in the Department of English, Maulana Azad college, Kolkata and a bilingual writer, most recently, of Dodopakhider Gann (Ababhash, 2019) and no path in Darjeeling is straight; Memories of a Hill Town (speaking Tiger, 2017)