Vanished Kingdoms

A Woman Explorer in Tibet, China, and Mongolia 1921-1925

Auteur Mabel H Cabot

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ISBN

9781931788083

Bindwijze

Hardcover

Taal

Engels

Auteur

Mabel H Cabot

Uitgeverij

Aperture Foundation Inc

Jaar van uitgifte

1990

Aantal pagina's

192

Waar gaat het over?

A Testament to yhe Great Spirit and Success of a Remarkable Woman Explorer In the early 1920s, the last great age of world explorers, a remarkable young woman, Janet Elliott Wulsin, set out with her husband, Frederick Wulsin, for the far reaches of China, Tibet, and Outer Mongolia to study the people, flora, and fauna of the region. Janets strenuous, eventful exploration is detailed by a text enriched with excerpts from her candid personal letters. The journey proved to be a test of the Wulsins endurance and of their relationship. While in Asia, the Wulsins took many extraordinary photographs, which form the heart of this richly produced publication. They documented tribespeople and sublime desert landscapes, and, perhaps most remarkably, were allowed to photograph the interior of several of the great Tibetan Buddhist lamaseries, many of which have since been destroyed. Several dozen rare, hand-painted lantern slides survived and are reproduced here in splendid color. The photographs from the Wulsin expedition are now in the collection of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, in collaboration with which this volume is being produced.

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