Lamas of the Western Heavens - Folio Society edition

Lamas of the Western Heavens

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Lamas of the Western Heavens - Folio Society edition
Folio Society
Travel

Lamas of the Western Heavens

Régis-Evariste Huc

Edition year 1982
Binding Cloth
Translator Charles de Salis
Weight 1 Kg
Pages 352
Dimensions 24 × 15 cm

Edition details

Lamas of the Western Heavens by Régis-Evariste Huc. Translated by Charles de Salis. Introduction by John Keay. 46 integrated wood-engravings from the first English edition. Page tops stained dark blue. Bound in dark blue cloth cover blocked in grey and gold with an image. Map endpapers printed black on pale grey. Mottled grey slipcase. 24x15cm. 352pp.

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Évariste Régis Huc's travels through Central Asia and Tibet recount a remarkable nineteenth-century missionary journey through Mongolia and toward Lhasa. Huc describes landscapes, monasteries, Buddhist religious life, nomadic communities and the practical hardships of travel across vast distances. His lively narrative became one of the most widely read European accounts of Tibet and Inner Asia before the region was easily accessible to Western travellers.

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