Among the Tibetans / Isabella L. Bird.
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TextPublication details: [Auckland, N.Z.] : Floating Press, ©2009.Description: 1 online resourceContent type: - text
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- 9781877527579
- 1877527572
- 9781877527579
- 1877527572
- 1775565599
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- Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy), 1831-1904 -- Travel -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region
- Bird, Isabella Lucy, 1831-1904
- Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy), 1831-1904
- Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Description and travel
- Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
- Région autonome du Tibet (Chine) -- Descriptions et voyages
- Région autonome du Tibet (Chine) -- Mœurs et coutumes -- 19e siècle
- TRAVEL
- Manners and customs
- Travel
- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region
- Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East
- History & Archaeology
- East Asia
- 1800-1899
- 915.1/50435 22
- DS785 .B62 2009eb
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Title; Contents; Chapter I The Start; Chapter II Shergol and Leh; Chapter III Nubra; Chapter IV Manners and Customs; Chapter V Climate and Natural Features; Endnotes.
""There never was anybody,"" wrote the Spectator, ""who had adventures as well as Miss Bird."" In <i>Among the Tibetans</i> 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, aft.
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