Among the Tibetans /:

""There never was anybody,"" wrote the Spectator, ""who had adventures as well as Miss Bird."" In <i>Among the Tibetans</i> you can see why, as Isabella Lucy Bird writes of her journey through the Himalayas on horseback and of her four months of li...

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1. Verfasser: Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy), 1831-1904
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: [Auckland, N.Z.] : Floating Press, ©2009.
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Zusammenfassung:""There never was anybody,"" wrote the Spectator, ""who had adventures as well as Miss Bird."" In <i>Among the Tibetans</i> 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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ISBN:9781877527579
1877527572
1775565599
9781775565598

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