Download or read book Pioneer in Tibet written by Douglas Wissing and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Albert Shelton was a medical missionary and explorer who spent nearly twenty years in the Tibetan borderlands at the start of the last century. During the Great Game era, the Sheltons' sprawling station in Kham was the most remote and dangerous mission on earth. Raising his family in a land of banditry and civil war, caught between a weak Chinese government and the British Raj, Shelton proved to be a resourceful frontiersman. One of the West's first interpreters of Tibetan culture, during the course of his work in Tibet, he was praised by the Western press as a family man, revered doctor, respected diplomat, and fearless adventurer. To the American public, Dr. Albert Shelton was Daniel Boone, Wyatt Earp, and the apostle Paul on a new frontier. Driven by his goal of setting up a medical mission within Lhasa, the seat of the Dalai Lama and a city off-limits to Westerners for hundreds of years, Shelton acted as a valued go-between for the Tibetans and Chinese. Recognizing his work, the Dalai Lama issued Shelton an invitation to Lhasa. Tragically, while finalizing his entry, Shelton was shot to death on a remote mountain trail in the Himalayas. Set against the exciting history of early twentieth century Tibet and China, Pioneer in Tibet offers a window into the life of a dying breed of adventurer.
Download or read book Pioneering in Tibet written by Albert Leroy Shelton and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pioneering in Tibet written by Annie R. Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1895* with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Pioneering on Tibet written by Albert Leroy Shelton and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating memoir, Shelton offers readers a first-hand account of his experiences as a Christian missionary in Tibet during the early 20th century. Shelton vividly describes the challenges he faced, including language barriers and cultural differences, as well as the impact of his work on the Tibetan people. This is an essential read for anyone interested in the history of Christian missions or the broader history of Tibet. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Pioneering in Tibet Classic Reprint written by Annie R Taylor and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-04 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Pioneering in Tibet China, that they were being accepted and sent out by the China Inland Mission, and that their labours were being blessed in the Flowery Land. When very young she read in 'near Home and Far Off' accounts Of that strange mysterious region SO rigidly Closed against Europeans, and in this way Tibet seems to have laid hold Of her mind. 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 Pioneer in Tibet written by Douglas A. Wissing and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 2004 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chronicle of the missionary's twenty-year effort in the Tibetan borderlands describes how he endeavored to raise his family and establish a medical mission in Lhasa in the face of such factors as civil war, bandits, and the clashes between the Chinese government and the British Raj. 12,000 first printing.
Download or read book Pioneering in Tibet written by Albert Shelton and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-08-10 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Albert Leroy Shelton (1875-1922) was a medical doctor and a Protestant missionary in China and Tibet from 1903 to 1922. Published in 1921, "Pioneering In Tibet" recalls Shelton's mission travels through Tibet. Far from a mundane read, Shelton's journey through Tibet to provide medical and religious outreach to the country's inhabitants culminated in his abduction by bandits. Book Excerpt: Now began about forty days of most strenuous travelling, the most strenuous that I ever had. I had been travelling for forty-seven days before I was captured, and had been travelling for a month since I was captured, and the strain was beginning to tell. Up to this time the tumor in my neck had given me not a great deal of trouble, but it now began to grow at an increased rate and began paining to some extent. The men and Yangtienfu did not mistreat me, in fact they treated me as a guest and as well as was possible in the circumstances, living as they were like wild animals, being chased over the mountain by dogs, sleeping at night many times under the trees and behind rocks. At one time they discussed what would be the effect of killing me, whether or not it would be advisable. They came to the conclusion that it would not be advisable because Yang himself hoped someday to be Governor of Yunnan, and they considered that, should they kill me, he might be looked upon with disfavor by the representatives of the foreign powers, so it was definitely decided that I was not to be killed in any case. "We were travelling in a very irregular course, but within two days we had crossed to the north of the main road and started toward the bend in the Yangtze River some days to the north. It was now nearing Chinese New Year, which date is an important one with every Chinese. It is the time of year that he wants to go home and be with his family. It is the greatest time in the whole year. One day we had stopped for noon at a small place and on getting ready to start on I noticed four of the men in the road kneeling and crying. The whole bunch was around them and talking in quite loud voices. I rode up and asked Yang what the trouble was. He said, "These fellows want to go home." "Well," I said, "aren't you going to let them?" He had some days previously, on taking them into the band (they were of the company of soldiers who joined the band), promised them that they should be allowed to go home at any time they wished to go, but that they would not be allowed to take their guns, but must dispose of them for a reasonable price to the band; the guns and ammunition were never to be disposed of, and on these terms the men had joined. Several of them now wanted to go but permission was refused. To see the men thus forced to continue in this life when I knew that there were a great many who were genuinely desirous of quitting, made me very angry. I said to him in quite a loud tone of voice so that all those around could hear, "Why don't you take those four men and me, for I want to go back, too, and stand us up against the wall and shoot us? We're all in the same mood and you're going to get before very long what they gave their officials some days ago when they mutinied. You can't continue to deceive men and misrepresent things to them and keep it up. They'll turn some day and you will be shot."
Download or read book Pioneering in Tibet written by Shelton A L 1875-1922 and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01 with total page 236 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.
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