Eccentric Explorers

by Michael Buckley

Overview

Eccentric Explorers was Winner of the Biography
category at the 2009 Indie Excellence Book Awards, California, USA. In this extensively researched book, the rich culture and history of Tibet are viewed through a rather special lens--through the eyes of ten wild and wacky adventurers, each bent on unlocking the strange riddles and secrets of Tibet.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940011132872
Publisher:	Michael Buckley
Publication date:	11/02/2010
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

A nomad at heart, Michael Buckley has travelled widely in the Himalayas, Central Asia, and South Asia. He is author of a number of books to these regions, including:

--Eccentric Explorers: wild and wacky adventurers of the Tibetan plateau
--Travels in the Tibetan World: detailing personal voyages to many Tibetan enclaves
--Shangri-La: a Travel Guide to the Himalayan Dream
--Tibet: the Bradt Travel Guide

Books about environment crisis in Tibet:

--Meltdown in Tibet (Palgrave-Macmillan, New York, 2014)
is about serious environmental issues on the Tibetan Plateau. Also available as ebook version.

--Tibet, Disrupted
is a companion digital photobook, updated and revised, published 2020. This is available for download via Amazon Kindle, Apple Books or the iTunes Store. The photo-based book is over 430 pages long and focuses on visual presentation with minimal text. 

--This Fragile Planet
His Holiness the Dalai Lama on Environment
Photobook with quotations from His Holiness, compiled and edited by Michael Buckley
published on Apple Books platform. Published in larger-format print version by Sumeru Books, September 2021

--The Snow Leopard's New Friend
Tibetan Animal Tales. A children's book for ages 8+ featuring 10 tales about the amazing animals of Tibet. The back of the book features profiles of the real animals as well as section on Activities. Published on Amazon Kindle platform and Apple Books platform. Published in print version by Sumeru Books, September 2021. Print version translated into Tibetan, published in India by the LTWA, September 2021.

As well as being a writer, Buckley is a passionate photographer, documentary filmmaker and environmental explorer. He is filmmaker for three short documentaries about major environmental issues in Tibet that go under-reported--or not reported at all. To find out more, go to www.WildYakFilms.com/:

--Meltdown in Tibet == about dams and water problems on the Tibetan plateau
--From Nomad to Nobody == about the plight of the vanishing nomads of Tibet
--Plundering Tibet == about the devastating impact of mining in Tibet
--Mekong Apocalypse == about the devastating impact of China's megadams on Cambodia and Vietnam

Table of Contents

Heading into the Unknown 7

Blundering into Tibet Thomas Manning bags the explorer's trophy-by accident 13

Mission Impossible on the Tsangpo Kintup & the case of the phantom waterfall 45

Tibet with a Butterfly Net Eric Bailey strays into some highly perilous situations 73

Everest on Faith & Figs Maurice Wilson takes on the goddess of Everest 117

Horsing around in Shangri-La Joseph Rock rides again, guns at the ready 155

Hot Chocolate for the Mystical Soul Alexandra David-Néel indulges in Psychic Sports 183

Cracking the Tibetan Code Professor Giuseppe Tucci stumbles into a lost kingdom 227

Land of Snows & Silence Peter Aufschnaiter finds sanctuary in Lhasa 265

Tales from the Three-eyed Lama New Age guru Lobsang Rampa pushes the limits of reality 303

Cavalier of Curiosity Michel Peissel delves into CIA intrigue & more mysteries 335

The Dome of Inspiration Following in the Footsteps of the Explorers 367

Basecamp Glossary, cameos, timelines, research sources & credits 387

Touching Foreheads 400