Among the Tibetans /

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Author / Creator:	Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy), 1831-1904.
Imprint:	[Auckland, N.Z.] : Floating Press, ©2009.
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Subject:	Bird, Isabella L. -- (Isabella Lucy), -- 1831-1904 -- Travel -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region. Bird, Isabella L. -- (Isabella Lucy), -- 1831-1904. Manners and customs. Travel. Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Description and travel. Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. China -- Tibet Autonomous Region. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11205113

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ISBN:	9781877527579 1877527572 9781877527579 1877527572 1775565599 9781775565598
Notes:	English.
Summary:	""There never was anybody,"" wrote the Spectator, ""who had adventures as well as Miss Bird."" In Among the Tibetans you can see why, as Isabella Lucy Bird writes of her journey through the Himalayas on horseback and of her four months of living with ""the pleasantest of people."" She offers evocative and colourful descriptions of Tibetan rituals and culture, along with vivid descriptions of its villages, monasteries, temples and palaces. ""Up to Kargil the scenery, though growing more Tibetan with every march, had exhibited at intervals some traces of natural verdure; but beyond, aft.

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