Dressed in Lhasa. The British secret expedition to Tibet. McGovern U.M.

William McGovern - political scientist, anthropologist, journalist and adventurer. Polyglot, owning more than a dozen languages. One of the prototypes of the hero of the famous film franchise of Indiana Jones. He began to travel at the age of six weeks, visiting Mexico with his mother, to "just look at the revolution." He spent his childhood and adolescence in Asia, having received at the age of 20 the degree of forty, that is, a doctor of theology, in the Buddhist monastery. He studied at the Sorbonne and the University of Berlin, received the degree of Doctor of Philology in Oxford, taught Chinese in London.

This book is a diary story about his first big adventure, a secret trip to the city of Lhasa, which is forbidden to visit all foreigners - The spiritual and political capital of Tibet. The author became one of the first white people to get into Lhasa without saying goodbye to life.