An account of the country and people of Central Tibet and of the progress of the mission sent there by the English Government in the year 1903-4
There was nothing, less, perhaps, in such maps and descriptions of Lhasa as we had than anywhere else, to promise us this city of gigantic palace and golden roof...
Lhasa An account of the country and people of Central Tibet and of the progress of the mission sent there by the English Government in the year 1903-4
Hurst and Blackett, 1905.
First edition. Two volumes. In the original red cloth, with gilt stamped decoration and titling to the upper boards and gilt titling to the spine. Copiously illustrated with thirteen colour plates, twenty-four photogravure plates, eighty-one full-page photographic reproductions, and one folding map in colour, with three further colour maps and three maps in black and white. A very good set, with some fading to the spine and upper board.
Landon's account is not only of the work of the British government's Tibetan mission at the beginning of the twentieth century, it is also one of the first comprehensive accounts by a European of the holy city of Lhasa, a centre of the Tibetan Buddhist world since the seventh century.
A contemporary reviewer for The Geographical Journal wrote "the future historian of the twentieth century will suffer from no lack of material in compiling his chapter on the British Mission to Tibet of 1903-4... [but] the more important volumes are those of Mr Landon."
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