Bayonets To Lhasa
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Bayonets To Lhasa
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Author : Peter Fleming
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1961
Bayonets To Lhasa written by Peter Fleming and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1961 with British categories.
Bayonets To Lhasa
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Author : Peter Fleming
language : en
Publisher: Tauris Parke Paperbacks
Release Date : 2012-07-03
Bayonets To Lhasa written by Peter Fleming and has been published by Tauris Parke Paperbacks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-03 with History categories.
The British invasion of Tibet in 1904 is one of the strangest events in British imperial history. Planned by Lord Curzon as a strategic move in the Great Game, the incursion was in fact ill-conceived and inspired by only the weakest of motivations. Led by the soldier, explorer, and mystic Francis Younghusband, the mission—doomed from the very beginning—became caught in political cross-fire and the distant and destructive machinations of China and England and ended in ignominy and disappointment. Peter Fleming's Bayonets to Lhasa is a gripping depiction of this unusual chain of events, its charismatic protagonists, and the repercussions that continue to be felt throughout the region.
Bayonets To Lhasa
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Author : Peter Fleming
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1961
Bayonets To Lhasa written by Peter Fleming and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1961 with History categories.
Describes Colonel Francis Younghusband's mission to Tibet in 1903 and 1904 to establish diplomatic relations with Great Britain.
Bayonets To Lhasa The First Full Account Of The British Invasion Of Tibet In 1904
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Author : Peter 1907-1971 Fleming
language : en
Publisher: Hassell Street Press
Release Date : 2021-09-10
Bayonets To Lhasa The First Full Account Of The British Invasion Of Tibet In 1904 written by Peter 1907-1971 Fleming and has been published by Hassell Street Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-10 with categories.
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. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
History Of Central Asia The 4 Volume Set
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Author : Christoph Baumer
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2018-04-18
History Of Central Asia The 4 Volume Set written by Christoph Baumer and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-18 with History categories.
This set includes all four volumes of the critically acclaimed History of Central Asia series. The epic plains and arid deserts of Central Asia have witnessed some of the greatest migrations, as well as many of the most transformative developments, in the history of civilization. Christoph Baumer's ambitious four-volume treatment of the region charts the 3000-year drama of Scythians and Sarmatians; Soviets and transcontinental Silk Roads; trade routes and the transmission of ideas across the steppes; and the breathless and brutal conquests of Alexander the Great and Chinghiz Khan. Masterfully interweaving the stories of individuals and peoples, the author's engaging prose is richly augmented throughout by colour photographs taken on his own travels. This set includes The Age of the Steppe Warriors (Volume 1), The Age of the Silk Roads (Volume 2), The Age of Islam and the Mongols (Volume 3) and The Age of Decline and Revival (Volume 4)
Himalaya
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Author : John Keay
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2022-09-15
Himalaya written by John Keay and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-15 with History categories.
'John Keay is the master storyteller and historian. This grand narrative of Himalaya is as epic as the mountains and peoples he describes' Dan Snow 'Adds the human element to the hard rock. And what a rich vein it is' Michael Palin History has not been kind to Himalaya. Empires have collided here, cultures have clashed. Buddhist India claimed it from the south, Islam put down roots in its western approaches, Mongols and Manchus rode in from the north, and, from the east, China continues to absorb what it prefers not to call Tibet. Hunters have decimated its wildlife and mountaineers have bagged its peaks. Today, machinery gouges minerals out of its rock. Roughly the size of Europe, the region is one of the most seismically active on the planet. Summers bring avalanches, rainfall triggers landslides and winters obliterate trails. Glaciers retreat, rivers change course and whole lakes quietly evaporate. To some, Himalaya is an otherworldly realm, profoundly life-changing, yet forbidding and forbidden. It has mesmerised scholars and mystics, sportsmen and spies, pilgrims and mapmakers who have mingled with the farmers and traders on the 'Roof of the World'. Himalaya is the story of one of the last great wildernesses and, in particular, of the bizarre discoveries and improbable achievements of its pioneers. Ranging from botany to trade, from the Great Game to today's geopolitics, John Keay draws on a lifetime of exploration and study to enlighten and delight with this lively biography of a region in crisis.
Proceedings Of The Tenth Seminar Of The Iats 2003 Volume 13 Art In Tibet
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2011-09-20
Proceedings Of The Tenth Seminar Of The Iats 2003 Volume 13 Art In Tibet written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-20 with History categories.
The papers in this volume discuss issues related to Tibetan art from the 7th the 20th century, dealing with relevant religious and historical sources, religious painting and iconography, medical iconography, painting materials and schools, metalwork, ritual objects, photographic records, artists.
Himmler S Crusade
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Author : Christopher Hale
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2013-02-18
Himmler S Crusade written by Christopher Hale and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-18 with History categories.
In 1938, on the eve of war, a Nazi expedition set out through British India on a mission sponsored by Himmler himself. Its aim was to trace the origins of the Aryan race, high in the sacred mountains of Tibet. The expedition was led by two complex individuals - Ernst Schäfer, a swashbuckling, gun-toting naturalist for whom Nazism promised a short-cut to personal glory, and Bruno Beger, an anthropologist whose racial theories were taken to their logical conclusion in Auschwitz. Schäfer and Beger soon found themselves battling hostility from the British, being manipulated by the Tibetans and struggling with the primitive conditions in the holy city of Lhasa. Every detail of the expedition was recorded in diaries, letters and secret reports. It was also documented in thousands of extraordinary photographs (some of which are reproduced here for the first time in decades) and on film. Despite this abundant documentation, the full story of Schäfer's ill-fated expedition has never been told. This encounter between the British and the Nazis so close to the Second World War forms a 'picture in little' of the conflict to come. HIMMLER'S CRUSADE explores the ideological roots of the Nazis' obsession with racial theory and the occult. Using the wealth of primary material as well as his own interviews with Bruno Beger, Christopher Hale has written a fascinating and thought-provoking book that brilliantly evokes this little-known prelude to the unimaginable horror of war.
Writing China
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Author : Peter J. Kitson
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2016
Writing China written by Peter J. Kitson and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with History categories.
New essays on the cultural representations of the relationship between Britain and China in the nineteenth century, focusing on the Amherst diplomatic problem.
Into The Silence
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Author : Wade Davis
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-10-06
Into The Silence written by Wade Davis and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-06 with History categories.
**Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Winner of Winners Award** A monumental work of history, biography and adventure - the First World War, Mallory and Mount Everest - now serialised in the BBC R4 documentary The Crowning of Everest. 'The price of life is death' For Mallory, as for all of his generation, death was but 'a frail barrier that men crossed, smiling and gallant, every day'. As climbers they accepted a degree of risk unimaginable before the war. What mattered now was how one lived, and the moments of being alive. While the quest for Mount Everest may have begun as a grand imperial gesture, it ended as a mission of revival for a country and a lost generation bled white by war. In a monumental work of history and adventure, Davis asks not whether George Mallory was the first to reach the summit of Everest, but rather why he kept climbing on that fateful day. 'An extraordinary book on an extraordinary generation' Joe Simpson, author of Touching the Void 'An instant classic of mountaineering literature' Guardian A moving, epic masterpiece' The Times