Treachery In Tibet

This fascinating book by John Wilcox is the 11th instalment of the beautiful Simon Fonthill series. The book has been thoroughly researched historically, see the author's note, and it is there where the author explains in a wonderful way all the happenings during that period of history, as well as th......more

Good book about interesting topic of british trying to defend India by stopping any wishful attempts of Russia to see interest in Tibet. Although British hold over Chumbi Valley was not as good as Convention of Lhasa, a remedy for strong Russian influence of province of lhasa . The salient points of......more

Took a little while to get started, but ended with a flourish. I'd not heard anything about the British invasion of Tibet before (lost, no doubt, between the end of the Boer War in South Africa and the commencement of the Great War) so the adventures of Simon and Alice Fonthill, with the trusty '352......more

Parts of it were interesting and I liked the idea and premise of the basic storyline however this book just didn't capture my imagination as I wanted it to... I found myself having to really labour to read it all and get through it... Not a bad read but not a book I would pick up again......more

This novel in the Simon Fonthill series by John Wilcox sees his hero leave the quiet life on an Indian tea plantation to accompany a punitive expedition to forbidden Tibet. Travelling with the armed expedition is Fonthill’s journalist wife, Alice, who quickly sees the campaign for exactly what it is......more