Across Thibet, Volume 2: Being a Translation of De Paris au Tonkin à Travers le Tibet Inconnu (Cambridge Library Collection - Travel and Exploration in Asia) - Softcover

Bonvalot, Gabriel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1108046347 ISBN 13: 9781108046343

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2012

Synopsis

The French explorer, author and legislator Gabriel Bonvalot (1853–1933) travelled widely in Central Asia in the 1880s. This two-volume English translation by C. B. Pitman of the 1889–90 French original was published in 1891. It describes Bonvalot's expedition across Europe and Asia to French Indochina. Accompanied by Prince Henri d'Orléans whose father, the Duc of Chartres, financed the expedition, Bonvalot left Paris in July 1889. In Volume 2, the expedition succeeds in gaining formal permission to enter Tibet, despite the Lhasa government's usual policy of turning away foreigners. Bonvalot shows himself fascinated with the polyandry and polygamy practised by the Tibetans, saying that they seem 'quite contented with their lot, and gaiety reigns supreme'. The party continues through China's Yunnan province to Tonkin in northern Vietnam, and reaches Hanoi in 1890; they return to France by sea.

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Book Description:

French explorer, author and legislator Gabriel Bonvalot (1853–1933) undertook several expeditions to Central Asia. This two-volume work, published in 1891, tells of Bonvalot's journey across Europe and Asia to French Indochina in 1889–90. In Volume 2 the expedition succeeds in entering Tibet and continues through China to Hanoi.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1108046347
• ISBN 13: 9781108046343
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 244