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Lhasa and its Mysteries - With a Record of the Expedition of 1903-1904 (Paperback)
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Lhasa and its Mysteries - With a Record of the Expedition of 1903-1904 (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Travel and Exploration in Asia
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A successful officer in the colonial Indian Medical Service,
Glasgow-educated Laurence Austine Waddell (1854-1938) was
fascinated by the landscapes and cultures of Darjeeling and Tibet,
studied local languages, and spent his leisure time researching and
writing on Tibetan topics. His earlier books The Buddhism of Tibet
(1895) and Among the Himalayas (1899) are also reissued in the
Cambridge Library Collection. Waddell had attempted to enter Lhasa
(then closed to foreigners) in disguise in 1892, but did not
succeed until he accompanied the controversial British expedition
to Tibet in 1903-4; he describes his arrival there as 'the
realisation of a vivid and long-cherished dream'. His eyewitness
account of how the 'peaceful mission' became an 'invasion' occupies
the first half of this 1905 publication. The later chapters vividly
portray the city and its inhabitants. The book includes more than a
hundred of Waddell's own photographs, as well as maps and line
drawings.
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