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Exploration in the Eastern Himalayas and the River Gorge Country of Southeastern Tibet
Exploration in the Eastern Himalayas and the River Gorge Country of Southeastern Tibet: Francis (Frank) Kingdon Ward (1885-1958)
Exploration of the Eastern Himalayas and the River Gorge Country of Southeastern Tibet Francis (Frank) Kingdon Ward, 1885-1958. An Annotated Bibliography with a Map of the Area of His Expeditions, by Ulrich Schweinfurth [and] Heidrun Schweinfurth-Marby
Britain and Tibet 1765-1947
Author: Julie Marshall
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004-11-23
Total Pages: 610
ISBN-13: 1134327854
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This bibliography is a record of British relations with Tibet in the period from 1765 to 1947. It also provides background information to Tibet's claims to independence, an issue of current importance. The work is divided into a number of sections and subsections, based on chronology, geography and events. The introductions to each of the sections provide a condensed and informative history of the period and place the books and articles in their historical context. This work is both a history and a bibliography of the subject, and provides a rapid entry into a complex area for scholars in the fields of international relations and military history as well as Asian history.
The Paper Road
Author: Erik Mueggler
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2011-11-02
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 0520950496
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This exhilarating book interweaves the stories of two early twentieth-century botanists to explore the collaborative relationships each formed with Yunnan villagers in gathering botanical specimens from the borderlands between China, Tibet, and Burma. Erik Mueggler introduces Scottish botanist George Forrest, who employed Naxi adventurers in his fieldwork from 1906 until his death in 1932. We also meet American Joseph Francis Charles Rock, who, in 1924, undertook a dangerous expedition to Gansu and Tibet with the sons and nephews of Forrest’s workers. Mueggler describes how the Naxi workers and their Western employers rendered the earth into specimens, notes, maps, diaries, letters, books, photographs, and ritual manuscripts. Drawing on an ancient metaphor of the earth as a book, Mueggler provides a sustained meditation on what can be copied, translated, and revised and what can be folded back into the earth.
Britain and Tibet 1765-1947
Author: Julie G. Marshall
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 658
ISBN-13: 9780415336475
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This bibliography is a record of British relations with Tibet in the period 1765 to 1947. As such it also involves British relations with Russia and China, and with the Himalayan states of Ladakh, Lahul and Spiti, Kumaon and Garhwal, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan and Assam, in so far as British policy towards these states was affected by her desire to establish relations with Tibet. It also covers a subject of some importance in contemporary diplomacy. It was the legacy of unresolved problems concerning Tibet and its borders, bequeathed to India by Britain in 1947, which led to border disputes and ultimately to war between India and China in 1962. These borders are still in dispute today. It also provides background information to Tibet's claims to independence, an issue of current importance. The work is divided into a number of sections and subsections, based on chronology, geography and events. The introductions to each of the sections provide a condensed and informative history of the period and place the books and article in their historical context. Most entries are also annotated. This work is therefore both a history and a bibliography of the subject, and provides a rapid entry into a complex area for scholars in the fields of international relations and military history as well as Asian history.
Himalayan Enchantment
Author: Francis Kingdon Ward
Publisher: Serindia Publications, Inc.
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780906026229
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The last of the great plant hunters, Frank Kingdon-Ward undertook 25 major expeditions over a period of nearly 50 years, and collected and numbered more than 23,000 plants. English gardens are still enriched by the poppies, lilies, primulas, rhododendrons and many other plants that he introduced.
Francis Frank Kingdon Ward and the Exploration of the Eastern Himalayas and the River Gorge Country of Southheastern Tibet - an Introduction
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