Across Thibet - Volume 2 : Being a Translation of De Paris au Tonkin a travers le Tibet inconnu

Name: Across Thibet - Volume 2
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781108046343
Price: 5300 KES
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ISBN: 9781108046343

by Gabriel Bonvalot

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Cambridge Library Collection - Travel and Exploration in Asia

ISBN-10 1108046347

ISBN-13 9781108046343

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Mar 8th, 2012

Print length 244 Pages

Weight 368 grams

Dimensions 22.90 x 15.10 x 1.90 cms

Product Classification: Asian history Asian history Geographical discovery & exploration Geographical discovery and exploration

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French explorer, author and legislator Gabriel Bonvalot (1853–1933) undertook several expeditions to Central Asia. This two-volume work, published in 1891, tells of Bonvalot's journey across Europe and Asia to French Indochina in 1889–90. In Volume 2 the expedition succeeds in entering Tibet and continues through China to Hanoi.

The French explorer, author and legislator Gabriel Bonvalot (1853–1933) travelled widely in Central Asia in the 1880s. This two-volume English translation by C. B. Pitman of the 1889–90 French original was published in 1891. It describes Bonvalot's expedition across Europe and Asia to French Indochina. Accompanied by Prince Henri d'Orléans whose father, the Duc of Chartres, financed the expedition, Bonvalot left Paris in July 1889. In Volume 2, the expedition succeeds in gaining formal permission to enter Tibet, despite the Lhasa government's usual policy of turning away foreigners. Bonvalot shows himself fascinated with the polyandry and polygamy practised by the Tibetans, saying that they seem 'quite contented with their lot, and gaiety reigns supreme'. The party continues through China's Yunnan province to Tonkin in northern Vietnam, and reaches Hanoi in 1890; they return to France by sea.

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