The Hungarian Who Walked To Heaven

Edward Fox

In 1819 Alexander Csoma de Koros a Hungarian scholar set off on a 30-year odyssey in search of his own identity or rather of the origins of the Magyar people. He ended up in Ladakh where through a bizane sequence of events he found himself decoding the mysteries of Tibetan culture for the British government. The desire to travel as Edward Fox so deftly illustrates can be a terrible burden on the soul.>