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Across Thibet - Being a Translation of De Paris au Tonkin a travers le Tibet inconnu (Paperback)
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Across Thibet - Being a Translation of De Paris au Tonkin a travers le Tibet inconnu (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Travel and Exploration in Asia, Volume 2
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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'Orleans 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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