Author : Graham Sandberg (i.e. Samuel Louis Graham)
Publisher :
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 21,92 MB
Release : 1904
Category : Tibet (China)
ISBN :
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Tibet: a Chronicle of Exploration
Author : John MacGregor
Publisher :
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 27,88 MB
Release : 1970
Category : History
ISBN :
The Exploration of Tibet: History and Particulars
Author : Graham Sandberg
Publisher :
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 42,86 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Tibet (China)
ISBN :
The Exploration of Tibet
Author : Graham Sandberg
Publisher :
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,35 MB
Release : 1973
Category :
ISBN :
The Great Plateau
Author : Cecil Godfrey Rawling
Publisher :
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 15,45 MB
Release : 1905
Category : Gartok Expedition
ISBN :
Trespassers on the Roof of the World
Author : Peter Hopkirk
Publisher : Tarcher
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 23,23 MB
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN :
The Exploration of Tibet
Author : Graham Sandberg
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 47,89 MB
Release : 2017-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780282121358
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.
The Pundits
Author : Derek Waller
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 48,44 MB
Release : 2014-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0813149045
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.
The Exploration of Tibet
Author : Graham Sandberg
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,27 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Tibet Autonomous Region (China)
ISBN :
The Culture of the Book in Tibet
Author : Kurtis R. Schaeffer
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 33,36 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Education
ISBN : 0231147163
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.