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An edition of Among the Tibetans (1894)

Among the Tibetans

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"There never was anybody," wrote the Spectator, "who had adventures as well as Miss Bird." In Among the Tibetans you can see why, as Isabella Lucy Bird writes of her journey through the Himalayas on horseback and of her four months of living with "the pleasantest of people." She offers evocative and colourful descriptions of Tibetan rituals and culture, along with vivid descriptions of its villages, monasteries, temples and palaces."Up to Kargil the scenery, though growing more Tibetan with every march, had exhibited at intervals some traces of natural verdure; but beyond, after leaving the Suru, there is not a green thing, and on the next march the road crosses a lofty, sandy plateau, on which the heat was terrible - blazing gravel and a blazing heaven, then fiery cliffs and scorched hillsides, then a deep ravine and the large village of Paskim (dominated by a fort-crowned rock), and some planted and irrigated acres; then a narrow ravine and magnificent scenery flaming with colour, which opens out after some miles on a burning chaos of rocks and sand, mountain-girdled, and on some remarkable dwellings on a steep slope, with religious buildings singularly painted. This is Shergol, the first village of Buddhists, and there I was 'among the Tibetans.'"

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Publisher
Kegan Paul
Language
English
Pages
160

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Among the Tibetans
2010, Cambridge University Press
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Among the Tibetans
January 15, 2001, Kegan Paul
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Among the Tibetans
1894, F. H. Revell company
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Among the Tibetans
1894, Religious Tract Society

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Library of Congress
, DS785

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Number of pages
160
Dimensions
8.8 x 5.6 x 0.7 inches
Weight
13 ounces

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL7780595M
ISBN 10
0710306954
ISBN 13
9780710306951
OCLC/WorldCat
1082135889, 45307298
Library Thing
8088357

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