Lecturer and freelance author Fran Sandham was an editor at Rough Guides for several years, and worked in bookselling and in the voluntary sector before that. He has travelled in over fifty countries, and divides his time between writing, public speaking and travel. He has written for many newspapers, magazines and travel publications, including the Sunday Times, NBC News, the Daily Telegraph, the Observer, the Financial Times, inflight magazines for KLM and Gulf Air, Adventure Travel, Traveller magazine, Travel Africa and Country Walking

IN THE FORBIDDEN LAND (The strange Tibetan adventure of Henry Savage Landor)
In 1897, eccentric traveller Henry Savage Landor set out to explore the forbidden Himalayan kingdom of Tibet and reach its fabled capital Lhasa. Immaculately dressed, equipped with all the latest equipment, and well-supplied with delicacies from Fortnum & Mason, 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 . . .