Perceval Landon

The Opening of Tibet: An Account of Lhasa and the Country and People of Central Tibet and of the Progress of the Mission Sent There by the English Government in the Year 1903-4

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Author

Perceval Landon

Edition

Reprint.

Publisher

Pilgrims Publishing, 2008

ISBN

8177694448

Length

xv+484p., 49 Leaves of Plates; Illustrations; Appendices; 23cm.

Subjects

History

Religion & Spirituality / Buddhism

Science & Nature / Geography

In 1903-4 British Mission advanced over high Himalayan passes and across the rugged Tibetan plains to enter the Forbidden City of Lhasa. The main objectives of the mission were to secure trading rights with Tibet and to investigate rumours of a Russian plot to take Tibet. This account of that mission, however, is much more than the catalogue of a military advance; it contains a wealth of new knowledge about a mysterious land of which so little was known. We are ...

The Opening of Tibet: An Account of Lhasa and the Country and People of Central Tibet and of the Progress of the Mission Sent There by the English Government in the Year 1903-4

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