Description
This is a book about a journey that was taken by two people, one of which was William Hazlitt and the other was Paul Pelliot. The book covers a lot of different topics, such as the French mission in Beijing, Tartar customs, festivals, an interview with a Tibetan Lama, the flooding of the Yellow River, veterinary surgeons, and irrigation projects. The book also compares Catholicism and Buddhism.
'To read it is like seeing the scenes described'
Evening Standard 'One of the world's best travel books'
Spectator 'The work remains a classic worthy of reproduction'
The Times Published to critical acclaim and well known for many years afterwards this account of the journey across Mongolia to Lhasa in the early nineteenth century owes much of its success to the literary skills of its authors, made available in English for the first time by William Hazlitt and Paul Pelliot. Among other topics the chapters cover: The French mission of Peking, Tartar manners and customs, festivals, an interview with a Tibetan Lama, the flooding of the Yellow River, Tartar veterinary surgeons, irrigation projects, comparative studies between Catholicism and Buddhism, war between two living Buddhas, and the Chinese account of Tibet.
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