Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China Vol I
$27.23
Book is in poor condition missing its frontispiece and has a large piece missing from the title page. It still has its fold out map albeit a little yellow on the edges. Pages have some spotting throughout. The boards are embossed with with gilt however they are bumped and a little worn.
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'To read it is like seeing the scenes described' Evening Standard' One of the world's best travel books' Spectator 'The work remains a classic worthy of reproduction' The Times Published to critical acclaim and well known for many years afterwards this account of the journey across Mongolia to Lhasa in the early nineteenth century owes much of its success to the literary skills of its authors, made available in English for the first time by William Hazlitt and Paul Pelliot. Among other topics the chapters The French mission of Peking, Tartar manners and customs, festivals, an interview with a Tibetan Lama, the flooding of the Yellow River, Tartar veterinary surgeons, irrigation projects, comparative studies between Catholicism and Buddhism, war between two living Buddhas, and the Chinese account of Tibet.
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Weight | 385 g |
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Dimensions | 14 × 2 × 19.5 cm |
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