Download or read book An Explorer s Adventures in Tibet written by Arnold Henry Savage Landor and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Explorer s Adventures in Tibet written by Arnold Henry Savage Landor and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-01-15 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Embark on a thrilling journey to the mystical landscapes of Tibet with Arnold Henry Savage Landor in 'An Explorer's Adventures in Tibet.' Landor, an intrepid explorer and skilled storyteller, invites readers on an extraordinary expedition to one of the most remote and enigmatic regions on Earth. Through vivid descriptions and captivating narratives, Landor shares his encounters with the people, landscapes, and cultures of Tibet during the early 20th century. 'An Explorer's Adventures in Tibet' is more than a travelogue; it's a firsthand account of a Westerner's odyssey into the heart of the Himalayas, capturing the awe-inspiring beauty and spiritual richness of Tibet. Join Landor on this literary escapade where each page unfolds a new chapter of exploration, offering readers a rare glimpse into a world where ancient traditions and breathtaking landscapes converge in an unforgettable tapestry of adventure."
Download or read book An Explorer s Adventures in Tibet written by Arnold Henry Savage Landor and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-06-21 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.
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Download or read book An Explorer s Adventures in Tibet written by A. Henry Landor and published by . This book was released on 2012-06-27 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Daughter Of The Sioux A Tale of the Indian Frontier BY General Charles King AUTHOR OF "THE COLONEL'S DAUGHTER," "FORT FRAYNE," "AN ARMY WIFE," ETC., ETC. [ZHINGOORA BOOKS] CONTENTS ILLUSTRATIONS A DAUGHTER OF THE SIOUX CHAPTER I Foreshadowed Events, CHAPTER II Absent from Duty, CHAPTER III A Night Encounter, CHAPTER IV The Sign of the Bar Shoe, CHAPTER V A Grave Discovery, CHAPTER VI First Sight of the Foe, CHAPTER VII Blood Will Tell, CHAPTER VIII More Strange Discoveries, CHAPTER IX Bad News from the Front, CHAPTER X "I'll Never Go Back," CHAPTER XI A Fight with a Fury, CHAPTER XII The Ordeal by Fire, CHAPTER XIII Wounded-Body and Soul, CHAPTER XIV A Vanished Heroine, CHAPTER XV A Woman's Plot, CHAPTER XVI Night Prowling at Frayne, CHAPTER XVII A Rifled Desk, CHAPTER XVIII Burglary at Blake's, CHAPTER XIX A Slap for the Major, CHAPTER XX The Sioux Surrounded, CHAPTER XXI Thanksgiving at Frayne, CHAPTER XXII Behind the Bars, CHAPTER XXIII CHAPTER XXIV A Soldier Entangled, L'ENVOI
Download or read book On Top of the World written by Luree Miller and published by Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 1984-10-31 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * An astonishing tale of perseverance * Wonderful insight into 19th century Tibet * A moving tale of adventure and discovery In the late 1800's, when women were bound by both cumbersome clothing and strict Victorian morals, a small band of astonishing women explorers burst forth to claim the adventurous life. What drew the five profiled in this book -- three British, one American, one French -- was Tibet, then the ultimate in exploration. Nina Mazuchelli organized a small expedition, urging the party on when they were lost on a glacier. Annie Taylor, a reckless, romantic missionary in China, knew her life was in danger the moment she crossed into Tibet. Esabella Bird Bishop, sickly while at home, was always robust on her adventures; she was nearly 60 when she went to Tibet. Fanny Bullock Workman plowed her way up Himalaya and Karakoram mountains, saying any woman could do so. Alexandra David-Neel, at 56, trekked for eight months through tropical lowlands and snow-covered passes with only a backpack and a begging bowl. Even by today's standards these women's accomplishments are remarkable.
Download or read book Adventures in Tibet Including the Diary of Miss Annie R Taylor s Remarkable Journey From Tau Cahu to Ta Chien Lu Through the Heart of the Forbidden Land written by William Carey and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Explorer s Adventures in Tibet Classic Reprint written by Arnold Henry Savage Landor and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An Explorer's Adventures in Tibet This book deals chie y with the author's adventures during a journey taken in Tibet in 1897, when that coun try, owing to religious fanaticism, was closed to strangers. For the scientific results of the expedition, for the de tailed description of the customs, manners, etc., of the people, the larger work, entitled In the Forbidden Land (harper Brothers, publishers), by the same author, should be consulted. During. That journey of exploration the author made many important geographical discoveries, among which may be mentioned. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Download or read book An Explorer s Adventures in Tibet written by HardPress and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Download or read book Trans Himalaya written by Sven Anders Hedin and published by Macmillan Company of Canada. This book was released on 1909 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Alexandra David Neel written by Facts On File, Incorporated and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women Explorers chronicles the lives of six intrepid women whose hunger for adventure and knowledge compelled them on paths of discovery around the world. Their discoveries not only brought stores of information on topics ranging from ancient dinosaur fossils to life in Tibet, but also challenged the established roles of women in their fields. From the age of five, Alexandra David-Neel longed for adventure and freedom from the societal expectations of women in nineteenth-century Europe. She traveled to Asia where she learned about Eastern religions and cultures and became the first non-Asian woman to enter the forbidden Tibetan city of Lhasa.
Download or read book Tibet Saga of Indian Explorers 1864 1894 written by P. L. Madan and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the middle of the nineteenth century the English were beginning to enjoy the fruits of their colonial empire. Military strategy and the political considerations, along with pressure from their intelligentsia for the safety of their colonial empire, and of course geographical expediencies forced the English authorities in the later half of the nineteenth century to begin seriously to collect information, both geographical and of general nature, about the vast terra incognita that was there all along the land frontiers of India since the prehistoric age. These were the regions where the English could travel in those days only at the risk to their lives. Strategically, they opted for sending the natives of the border region who were accustomed to frequent Tibet, Turkestan and the adjacent regions since early historical period for trade and religious pilgrimages. With the creation of the Establishment for Trans-Himalayan Exploration in 15 May 1863, and trained with elementary survey instruments the explorers began to systematically infiltrate in the northern regions in various disguises. The present work is mostly based on their diaries' and reports' submitted to the Survey department. Part I describes the beauty of the rugged country including its geographical and geological growth in much detail for the first time. The social, economic, cultural and religious activities of life in Tibet are very diligently described by the Indian explorers in Part II.
Download or read book A Stranger in Tibet written by Scott Berry and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Trespassers on the Roof of the World written by Peter Hopkirk and published by Tarcher. This book was released on 1983 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Adventures in Tibet written by Sven Anders Hedin and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Courting the Diamond Sow written by Wickliffe W. Walker and published by National Geographic. This book was released on 2002 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The harrowing account of the pioneering descent of Tibets Tsangpo River one of modern explorations greatest challenges which ended in tragedy with the death of Olympic Paddler Doug Gordon. A COMPELLING AND DRAMATIC EXPEDITION ACCOUNT set in one of the worlds most beautiful and remote regions. The Tsangpo is one of the last great uncharted rivers in the world. It's the Everest of whitewater, except unlike Everest, it's never been done. -- Arlene Burns, the Washington Post ROMANCE OF THE WORLD'S FORBIDDEN AND SECRET PLACES: Mysterious and sacred, Tibet has fascinated explorers for more than a century. The stretch of the Tsangpo attempted by Walker and his team is the source of the legend of Shangri-la, and the model for James Hiltons novel, Lost Horizons. CONTROVERSY OVER THE 'DISCOVERY' OF TSANGPO'S HIDDEN FALLS: In 1924 British explorer Frank Kingdon-Ward observed what he believed to be the highest waterfall on the Tsangpo, a waterfall to rival Niagra. His observations led to a race to document these falls, which has attracted generations of explorers.FILM TIE-IN: The Walker expedition is the subject of a National Geographic Explorer special that will re-air at the time of publication. In 1926 botanist F. Kingdon Ward described one of modern explorationIs greatest challengesUtracking the course of the Tsangpo River of Tibet. In a mysterious region called Pemako, the Land of Flowers, the mighty Tsangpo loops around the eastern anchor of the Himalayan Range, cutting the deepest canyon on earth and emerging more than nine thousand feet lower on the plains of Assam, India, renamed the Brahmaputra. He and others added pieces to the puzzle he called Ithe riddle of the Tsangpo gorges, O but no one has yet followed the river throughout its course. For almost four decades on several continents, a small group of American companionsUWick Walker, Tom and Jamie McEwan, and Doug Gordon were privileged to participate in the emergence of a new and thrilling sport, whitewater racing. Moving from World Cup and Olympic levels to expeditions around the globe, Wick Walker and his companions were drawn to an area of Tibet where the highest and deepest of the EarthIs recesses come together.Perhaps no place in the world is more dramatic (or less known and explored) than the magnificent series of gorges that lie in far southeastern Tibet. In late September 1998, after years of planning, including a month-long reconnaissance into the gorge in 1997, and garnering support from the National Geographic Society, Malden Mills Industries, and a host of other sponsors, the expedition finally launched into the treacherous gorges for a first descent. Four whitewater paddlers, perhaps the best possible team in the world, would descend the Tsangpo, supported and resupplied at intervals by a team of four trekkers accompanied by two sherpas, local guides and porters, and a videographer from National Geographic. The descent, which began with difficultiesUa huge river swollen by a season of Ififty-year floodsO ended in tragedy with the death of renowned chemist and Olympian, Doug Gordon, who perished on October 16th while running a small put powerful waterfall. Although his teammates searched for his body for four days, his remains were never found, vanishing into the treacherous waters. The expedition was immediately abandoned.Courting the Diamond Sow is a compelling expedition account shaped by the first-hand diary accounts of the kayackers as they passed through the gorges; the history of this mysterious corner of the world some refer to as Shangri La and the attempts to explore it; and a cultural profile of this remote Tibetan region.
