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The lake is the titular starting point of Vikram Seth's first book, From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet (1983), which describes his hitchhiking journey through Xinjiang, Qinghai, Tibet and Nepal to return home to India, during a break in his studies at Nanjing University in 1981.
He has written a travel book, From Heaven Lake: Travels through Sinkiang and Tibet (1983), an account of a journey through Tibet, China and Nepal. He was also commissioned by the English National Opera to write a libretto based on the Greek legend of Arion and the Dolphin. The opera was performed for the first time in June 1994.
Seth, Vikram (1990). From Heaven Lake: Travels through Sinkiang and Tibet. Penguin. ISBN 0-14-013919-2. Tibet: A Fascinating Look at the Roof of the World, Its People and Culture. Passport Books. 1988. p. 71.
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Author interview with Vikram Seth at HarperCollins Archived 2008-10-11 at the Wayback Machine; Analysis of the novel at Let's Talk about Bollywood; A book review "Total immersion in 1950s India: Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy", 2010 review by Jo Walton; Woodward, Richard B. (2 May 1993). "Vikram Seth's Big Book". The New York Times Magazine
1988, Colin Thubron, Behind the Wall: A Journey Through China; 1986/87, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Between the Woods & the Water; 1985, Patrick Marnham, So Far From God: Journey to Central America; 1984, Geoffrey Moorhouse, To The Frontier; 1983, Vikram Seth, From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet; 1982, Tim Severin, The Sinbad Voyage
The Golden Gate (1986) is the first novel by poet and novelist Vikram Seth. The work is a novel in verse composed of 590 Onegin stanzas (sonnets written in iambic tetrameter, with the rhyme scheme following the AbAbCCddEffEgg pattern of Eugene Onegin). It was inspired by Charles Johnston's translation of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin.
The caldera which contains Heaven Lake was created by the 946 eruption of Paektu Mountain. The lake has a surface elevation of 2,189.1 m (7,182 ft). [3] The lake covers an area of 9.82 km 2 (3.79 sq mi), with a south–north length of 4.85 km (3.01 mi) and an east–west length of 3.35 km (2.08 mi). The average depth of the lake is 213 m (699 ...