A hypnotic picture of the Tibet which has vanished

A vivid and moving portrait of a country that has bewitched travellers for centuries...a profound and compelling portrait

For readers of all religions and readers of none

If you believe books can change lives, earmark this one

You don't have to be a Buddhist to read it: its mastery lies in the lucid way it presents esoteric ideas

One of the most helpful books I have ever read

Marvellous - like all the great teachings, it is both simple and complex, and full of love and compassion

Sogyal Rinpoche speaks directly and clearly to the Western mind and heart with humour, joy and great warmth.

I have encountered no book on the interplay of life and death that is more comprehensive, practical and wise.

Valuable and profound

It is a compelling text, chock full of history, teaching, and truth.

There is no one better than Ram Dass to transmit the essence of "Eastern" religion and philosophy to Westerners. He has made the journey and from the depth of his Joy and Wisdom he shares with us the journey of so many great Beings.

Read this delicious, ecstatic journey and be awakened, be pulled body and soul into the heart of love.

If the West even approaches enlightenment in the 21st Century, there's no way to overestimate the role of Ram Dass in making it happen. He planted seeds that turned into a million trees; if and when they blossom, they will exude the fragrance of his teaching forever.

His deeply personal and profound process of inner transformation--through his guru's "fierce grace" and a life of love and service--is told with characteristic candor and humor. Rich with teaching stories, Be Love Now is an invitation to open our hearts.

A gift of love from the man who introduced me to the idea of higher consciousness and became one of my greatest teachers.

An utterly absorbing read... An elegiac meditation on life, death, family and mortality. Beautiful

Thubron is an impressive prose stylist..he writes with great elegiac precision

It's a pleasure to follow Colin Thubron's hesitant pilgrimage ... the last of the great post-war British travel writers

Amid the desolation there is a beauty that comes not only from the things that Thubron chooses to describe but from the way in which he describes them

What Thubron provides in his inimitable way is an account of both fellow pilgrimsand himself

Wonderfully poetic tale

Colin Thurbron's ode to a mystical mountain in Tibet... Not to be missed

This latest travelogue confirms Colin Thubron as one of the greatest contemporary travel writers

I am haunted by its spare simplicity and beauty

His measures prose matches the region's stark beauty. Refreshing

haunting and profound

This pure artist of the voyage looks back backwards and within, to his late mother and his childhood, as well as up to the Himalayan peaks and peoples that he sumptuously evokes

[An] elegiac account of high-altitude piety...he's still one of the best in the business

An absolutely terrific book. Thubron has perfect pitch. He uses the minimum of words to maximum effect. His descriptions are fresh and acute and he can convey atmosphere and emotion on the head of a pin. The journey to Mount Kailash is enthralling and he keeps the reader right beside him every inch of the way

Punchy, evocative... It is a dangerous journey up to 18,000ft, where Thubron, who is mourning his mother, is hit by altitude sickness

Abook which beautifully describes one man's experience of loss and familial love

[Thubron] skilfully balances his poetic descriptions of the land and its subtle, shifting colours with human stuff - observations of his fellow travellers, encounters and personal anecdotes, snippets of history and rather interesting accounts of Tantric Buddhism, with its swirling pantheon of blue-faced demons, bodhisattvas, gods and goddesses... Thubron has recently buried his last living relative and his grieving gives depth and weight to his meditations on Tibetan Buddhism

This is a superb book from a writer who over his lifetime has shown himself to be our finest modern chronicler of Asia

The keenest-eyed, least self-absorbed, of literary travellers, Colin Thubron writes with a pin-point elegance and economy that directs your gaze to a place and its people, rather than to the author's foibles... His tales of seekers, refugees and mystics richly sketch the background of Tibetan history and Buddhist belief. Above all, his lean and supple prose draws meaning and moment from every encounter. "To the pilgrims, there are no mute stones" - and not to their ultra-observant companion

His book is interspersed with poignant passages about his late parents and sister, who died in an avalanche when he was 23. Thubron also reveals some cultural surprises.

Making a lyrical hymn out of travel writing, Thubron's evocative pilgrimage is typically poised yet, triggered by the death of his mother, also unusually personal

Thubron's writing is as spectacular as his surroundings so he therefore makes you feel as though you are treading the path with him

[Thubron] doesn't just walk into the higher reaches of the Himalyas but explores his own reaches of eternity as well as the more outer regions of Buddhism and Hinduism

Deploying a poetic blend of travel and memoir, Thubron uses Buddhism to inform reflections on the cycles of life and the meaning of suffering... it is an elegy for everything that makes us human

Reflections of the wheel of life are sensitively handled and the writing is as beautiful as ever

A new Travel Thubron is always to be savoured, but there was something valedictory and elegiac about this