The strange Tibetan adventure of Henry Savage Landor, the real-life 'Baron Munchausen' of Victorian explorers . . .

In 1897, eccentric traveller and artist Henry Savage Landor vowed to cross 'The Roof of the World', the forbidden Himalayan kingdom of Tibet, and reach its fabled capital Lhasa. Immaculately dressed, equipped with all the latest equipment, and with thirty porters to carry all his supplies, Landor entered Tibet illegally and very definitely uninvited.

Several months later, a very different Landor was unceremoniously bundled out of Tibet. Emaciated, clad in filthy rags, he was clutching his sole remaining possession, a map he'd drawn in his own blood. Back in Europe, Landor became a celebrity, thrilling the public with his extraordinary (and often scarcely believable) tales of high adventure in Tibet. Yet despite his embellishments and huge propensity for outrageous lies, the basic facts Landor told of his Tibetan adventure were actually true . . .

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