Travels In Tartary Thibet And China, Volume Two

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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

• Travels In Tartary Thibet And China, Volume Two available on September 23 2018 from VitalSource for itemprop="offers" target="_external" title="" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Offer">26.91
  
• ISBN bar code 9781134284863 ξ1 registered March 18 2017
  
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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.

^ Travels In Tartary Thibet And China, Volume Two VitalSource. ISBN 9781134284863 (revised Sep 2018)