Tibet in the Western Imagination - Paperback

by T. Neuhaus (Author)

Neuhaus explores the roots of the long-standing European fascination with Tibet, from the Dalai Lama to the Abominable Snowman. Surveying a wide range of travel accounts, official documents, correspondence and fiction, he examines how different people thought about both Tibet and their home cultures.

Author Biography

TOM NEUHAUS is a lecturer in History at the University of Derby, UK. He has previously worked at the German Historical Institute London, Clare College Cambridge, UK, and the Global Policy Institute. He has carried out research and published on German attitudes towards Western spirituality, transnational missionary communities and on British and German travel to Tibet.