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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    February 2013
    March 2012
    ISBN:
    9781139198493
    9781108046336
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139198493
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    Dimensions:
    (229 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.35kg, 236 Pages
    • Subjects:
    East Asian History, Area Studies, Geography, Historical Geography, Regional and World History: General Interest, Asian Studies, History
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Travel and Exploration in Asia
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    Subjects:
    East Asian History, Area Studies, Geography, Historical Geography, Regional and World History: General Interest, Asian Studies, History
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Travel and Exploration in Asia
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    The French explorer, author and legislator Gabriel Bonvalot (1853–1933) travelled widely in Central Asia in the 1880s. This two-volume English translation by C. B. Pitman of the 1889–90 French original was published in 1891. It describes Bonvalot's expedition across Europe and Asia to French Indochina. Accompanied by Prince Henri d'Orléans whose father, the Duc of Chartres, financed the expedition, Bonvalot left Paris in July 1889. In Volume 1, the expedition crosses first Russia and then Siberia, making its way south to Tibet. The obstacles encountered are considerable, with temperatures reaching 40 degrees below zero (Bonvalot describes how the fat that the expedition eats for butter is so hard that it may be 'used as a projectile') and altitude sickness affecting many of the party. The volume ends as the party enters Tibet, but without being certain exactly where they are.

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