Lhasa and its Mysteries: With a Record of the Expedition of 1903-1904 (Cambridge Library Collection – Travel and Exploration in Asia)

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A successful officer within the colonial Indian Medical Service Glasgow educated Laurence Austine Waddell 18541938 used to be fascinated with the landscapes and cultures of Darjeeling and Tibet studied local languages and spent his leisure time researching and writing on Tibetan topics His in advance books The Buddhism of Tibet 1895 and Some of the Himalayas 1899 are also reissued within the Cambridge Library Collection Waddell had attempted to go into Lhasa then closed to foreigners in disguise in 1892 but didn’t succeed until he accompanied the controversial British expedition to Tibet in 19034 he describes his arrival there as the realisation of a vivid and long cherished dream His eyewitness account of how the peaceful mission turned into an invasion occupies the primary 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 in addition to maps and line drawings

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