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Author : Graham Sandberg (i.e. Samuel Louis Graham)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Exploration of Tibet written by Graham Sandberg (i.e. Samuel Louis Graham) and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Swami Pranavananda
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Exploration in Tibet written by Swami Pranavananda and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John MacGregor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Tibet: a Chronicle of Exploration written by John MacGregor and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : University of Calcutta
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (557 download)
Download or read book Exploration in Tibet. [By] Swami Pranavānanda, etc. [With plates, including a portrait, and maps.]. written by University of Calcutta and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Hopkirk
Publisher : John Murray
ISBN 13 : 1848547269
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (485 download)
Download or read book Trespassers on the Roof of the World written by Peter Hopkirk and published by John Murray. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No other land has captured man's imagination quite like Tibet. Hidden away behind the highest mountains on earth, and ruled over by a mysterious God-king, it was for centuries a land forbidden to all outsiders. In this remarkable and ultimately tragic narrative, Peter Hopkirk recounts the forcible opening up of this medieval Buddhist kingdom by inquisitive Western travellers during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the race to reach Lhasa, Tibet's sacred capital. This epic, often harrowing tale, which ends with the Chinese invasion of 1950, draws on a colourful cast of gatecrashers from nine different countries. Among them were adventurous young officers on Great Game missions, explorers and mountaineers, mystics and missionaries. All took their lives in their hands, including three intrepid women. Some were never to return.
Author : Cecil Godfrey Rawling
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Great Plateau written by Cecil Godfrey Rawling and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Graham Sandberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (637 download)
Download or read book The Exploration of Tibet written by Graham Sandberg and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Graham Sandberg
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780282121358
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (213 download)
Download or read book The Exploration of Tibet written by Graham Sandberg and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-05-28 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Exploration of Tibet: Its History and Particulars From 1623 to 1904 Tibet, in area some square miles, extend ing through 22 degrees of longitude and occupying from north to south on an average some 6 degrees of latitude, has only within the last 35 years been brought under the domain of definite geographical knowledge. A few isolated attempts to ascertain its physical fea tures had been made from time to time during the preceding years; but systematic exploration and the assimilation of the facts discovered throughout the entire territory belong to the present generation. The gradual elucidation of the geography and physio graphy of this unknown and forbidden region, under unexampled difficulties both natural and political, forms an interesting and even bewitching story. Ti bet onoe so mysterious in all its characteristics is being rapidly unravelled. Much has been revealed, though exploration and travel have still a good deal of work yet to do in a land from which we are still in a large measure shut out. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Mike Searle
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191652490
Total Pages : 728 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book Colliding Continents written by Mike Searle and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The crash of the Indian plate into Asia is the biggest known collision in geological history, and it continues today. The result is the Himalaya and Karakoram - one of the largest mountain ranges on Earth. The Karakoram has half of the world's highest mountains and a reputation as being one of the most remote and savage ranges of all. In this beautifully illustrated book, Mike Searle, a geologist at the University of Oxford and one of the most experienced field geologists of our time, presents a rich account of the geological forces that were involved in creating these mountain ranges. Using his personal accounts of extreme mountaineering and research in the region, he pieces together the geological processes that formed such impressive peaks.
Author : Derek Waller
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813149045
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book The Pundits written by Derek Waller and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a September day in 1863, Abdul Hamid entered the Central Asian city of Yarkand. Disguised as a merchant, Hamid was actually an employee of the Survey of India, carrying concealed instruments to enable him to map the geography of the area. Hamid did not live to provide a first-hand count of his travels. Nevertheless, he was the advance guard of an elite group of Indian trans-Himalayan explorers—recruited, trained, and directed by the officers of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India—who were to traverse much of Tibet and Central Asia during the next thirty years. Derek Waller presents the history of these explorers, who came to be called "native explorers" or "pundits" in the public documents of the Survey of India. In the closed files of the government of British India, however, they were given their true designation as spies. As they moved northward within the Indian subcontinent, the British demanded precise frontiers and sought orderly political and economic relationships with their neighbors. They were also becoming increasingly aware of and concerned with their ignorance of the geographical, political, and military complexion of the territories beyond the mountain frontiers of the Indian empire. This was particularly true of Tibet. Though use of pundits was phased out in the 1890s in favor of purely British expeditions, they gathered an immense amount of information on the topography of the region, the customs of its inhabitants, and the nature of its government and military resources. They were able to travel to places where virtually no European count venture, and did so under conditions of extreme deprivation and great danger. They are responsible for documenting an area of over one million square miles, most of it completely unknown territory to the West. Now, thanks to Waller's efforts, their contributions to history will no longer remain forgotten.
Author : Derek Waller
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813184290
Total Pages : 503 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book The Pundits written by Derek Waller and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a September day in 1863, Abdul Hamid entered the Central Asian city of Yarkand. Disguised as a merchant, Hamid was actually an employee of the Survey of India, carrying concealed instruments to enable him to map the geography of the area. Hamid did not live to provide a first-hand count of his travels. Nevertheless, he was the advance guard of an elite group of Indian trans-Himalayan explorers—recruited, trained, and directed by the officers of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India—who were to traverse much of Tibet and Central Asia during the next thirty years. Derek Waller presents the history of these explorers, who came to be called "native explorers" or "pundits" in the public documents of the Survey of India. In the closed files of the government of British India, however, they were given their true designation as spies. As they moved northward within the Indian subcontinent, the British demanded precise frontiers and sought orderly political and economic relationships with their neighbors. They were also becoming increasingly aware of and concerned with their ignorance of the geographical, political, and military complexion of the territories beyond the mountain frontiers of the Indian empire. This was particularly true of Tibet. Though use of pundits was phased out in the 1890s in favor of purely British expeditions, they gathered an immense amount of information on the topography of the region, the customs of its inhabitants, and the nature of its government and military resources. They were able to travel to places where virtually no European count venture, and did so under conditions of extreme deprivation and great danger. They are responsible for documenting an area of over one million square miles, most of it completely unknown territory to the West. Now, thanks to Waller's efforts, their contributions to history will no longer remain forgotten.
Author : Peter Hopkirk
Publisher : Tarcher
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Trespassers on the Roof of the World written by Peter Hopkirk and published by Tarcher. This book was released on 1983 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Walter Gregory
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)
Download or read book To the Alps of Chinese Tibet written by John Walter Gregory and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Hugh Peter Deasy
Publisher : London : Unwin
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book In Tibet and Chinese Turkestan written by Henry Hugh Peter Deasy and published by London : Unwin. This book was released on 1901 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Graham Sandberg
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Exploration of Tibet: History and Particulars written by Graham Sandberg and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Erik Mueggler
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520269039
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book The Paper Road written by Erik Mueggler and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-11-02 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An absolutely breathtaking book -- in its thoughtfulness and imaginativeness, in the breadth and depth of the research which it entailed, in its geographical, cultural, and historical situatedness, and in its profound critical empathy for all of the key players. Beautifully and skillfully written.” – Sydney White, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Asian Studies, and Women's Studies at Temple University "The Paper Road is an eloquent, even haunting narrative of the relationships between colonial explorers/scientists and their native collaborators that makes vivid the theme of 'colonial intimacy.' It speaks to scholars working on Chinese minorities and frontier relations, to historians of comparative colonialism, to experts on Tibet and Buddhism, and probably also simply to lovers of tales of mountains and exploration." –Charlotte Furth, Professor Emerita of Chinese History , University of Southern California.
Author : Kurtis R. Schaeffer
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231147163
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)
Download or read book The Culture of the Book in Tibet written by Kurtis R. Schaeffer and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on sources spanning the fourteenth through the eighteenth centuries, Kurtis R. Schaeffer envisions the scholars and hermits, madmen and ministers, kings and queens responsible for Tibet's massive canons. He describes how Tibetan scholars edited and printed works of religion, literature, art, and science and what this indicates about the interrelation of material and cultural practices. The Tibetan book is at once the embodiment of the Buddha's voice, a principal means of education, a source of tradition and authority, an economic product, a finely crafted aesthetic object, a medium of Buddhist written culture, and a symbol of the religion itself. A meticulous study that draws on more than 150 understudied Tibetan sources, The Culture of the Book in Tibet is the first volume to trace this singular history, allowing for a greater understanding of the Tibetan plateau.
