Travels in Tartary Thibet and China, Volume Two: 1844-1846: Travels in Tartary, Tibet and China, 1844-1846: Volume 24 (Broadway Travellers) [Idioma Inglés] - Hardcover

Gabet; Huc

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415344840 ISBN 13: 9780415344845

Verlag: Routledge, 2004

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Book by Gabet Huc

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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 cover: 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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• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0415344840
• ISBN 13: 9780415344845
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 420
• Herausgeber: Pelliot Paul