Referenced In

The Travels of Marco Polo
by Marco Polo, da Pisa Rusticiano

"…and then it diverges to the left. We may now say without hesitation that by this road Marco travelled towards L’hása."

The Dharma Bums
by Jack Kerouac

"Warren Coughlin said "Too bad, he'll probably disappear into Central Asia marching about on a quiet but steady round from Kashgar to Lanchow via Lhasa with a string of yaks selling popcorn, safety-pins, and assorted colors of sewing-thread and occasionally climb a Himalaya and end up enlightening the Dalai Lama and all the gang for miles around and never be heard of again."