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Author : Peter Fleming
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ISBN 13 :
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Download or read book Bayonets to Lhasa written by Peter Fleming and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Fleming
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195838626
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)
Download or read book Bayonets to Lhasa written by Peter Fleming and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1961 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes Colonel Francis Younghusband's mission to Tibet in 1903 and 1904 to establish diplomatic relations with Great Britain.
Author : Peter 1907-1971 Fleming
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781014924681
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)
Download or read book Bayonets to Lhasa; the First Full Account of the British Invasion of Tibet in 1904 written by Peter 1907-1971 Fleming and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-10 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Peter Fleming
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857722115
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)
Download or read book Bayonets to Lhasa written by Peter Fleming and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-27 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British invasion of Tibet in 1904 is one of the strangest events in British imperial history. Conceived by Lord Curzon as a strategic move in the Great Game - that colossal struggle between imperial Britain and Tsarist Russia for influence in Central Asia - the incursion was in fact ill-conceived and inspired by only the weakest of motivations. Led by the soldier, explorer and mystic, Francis Younghusband, the mission - doomed from the very beginning - became caught in political cross-fire and the distant and destructive machinations of China and Britain and ended in ignominy and disappointment for this idealistic adventurer. Peter Fleming's gripping portrayal of this curious episode and its charismatic protagonists brilliantly illuminates what is now seen as a key moment in the Great Game, the repercussions of which continue to be felt throughout the region.
Author : Peter Fleming
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Download or read book Bayonets to lhasa, by peter fleming written by Peter Fleming and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Fleming
Publisher : Greenwood Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 9780837172163
Total Pages : 319 pages
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Download or read book Bayonets to Lhasa written by Peter Fleming and published by Greenwood Publishing Group. This book was released on 1974 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. F. Bosher
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1450059635
Total Pages : 839 pages
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Download or read book Imperial Vancouver Island written by J. F. Bosher and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 839 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "During the century 1850-1950 Vancouver Island attracted Imperial officers and other Imperials from India, the British Isles, and elsewhere in the Empire. Victoria was the main British port on the north-west Pacific Coast for forty years before the city of Vancouver was founded in 1886 to be the coastal terminus of the Canadian Pacific Railway. These two coastal cities were historically and geographically different. The Island joined Canada in 1871 and thirty-five years later the Royal Navy withdrew from Esquimalt, but Island communities did not lose their Imperial character until the 1950s."--P. [4] of cover.
Author : Christoph Baumer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1838608672
Total Pages : 1568 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)
Download or read book History of Central Asia, The: 4-volume set written by Christoph Baumer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-18 with total page 1568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This set includes all four volumes of the critically acclaimed History of Central Asia series. The epic plains and arid deserts of Central Asia have witnessed some of the greatest migrations, as well as many of the most transformative developments, in the history of civilization. Christoph Baumer's ambitious four-volume treatment of the region charts the 3000-year drama of Scythians and Sarmatians; Soviets and transcontinental Silk Roads; trade routes and the transmission of ideas across the steppes; and the breathless and brutal conquests of Alexander the Great and Chinghiz Khan. Masterfully interweaving the stories of individuals and peoples, the author's engaging prose is richly augmented throughout by colour photographs taken on his own travels. This set includes The Age of the Steppe Warriors (Volume 1), The Age of the Silk Roads (Volume 2), The Age of Islam and the Mongols (Volume 3) and The Age of Decline and Revival (Volume 4)
Author : Roger E. McCarthy
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476621632
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)
Download or read book Tears of the Lotus written by Roger E. McCarthy and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-08-13 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1949 Mao Tse-tung first sent his People's Liberation Army into the eastern Tibetan province of Amdo; he followed with an invasion of the province of Kham in 1950. Ill-prepared, disorganized and badly outnumbered, the small Tibetan armed forces were no match for the invaders. At first the Chinese persuaded many Tibetans that their intent was merely to help them share in the future greatness and wealth that Mao had promised all. In a short time the Tibetan tribesmen realized, however, that the true purpose of the invasion was otherwise. Their religion and their freedom were at stake. Despite the repeated efforts by the Dalai Lama and others in Lhasa to dissuade them, the people resisted the Chinese--at great cost: over one million dead in the 1950s. This work includes accounts of the role of Tibetans who collaborated with the Chinese invaders, the resistance movement, the Dalai Lama's lack of support for the movement, and how even so the resistance made it possible for the Dalai Lama to escape from Lhasa in 1959.
Author : John Keay
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408891123
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)
Download or read book Himalaya written by John Keay and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'John Keay is the master storyteller and historian. This grand narrative of Himalaya is as epic as the mountains and peoples he describes' Dan Snow 'Adds the human element to the hard rock. And what a rich vein it is' Michael Palin History has not been kind to Himalaya. Empires have collided here, cultures have clashed. Buddhist India claimed it from the south, Islam put down roots in its western approaches, Mongols and Manchus rode in from the north, and, from the east, China continues to absorb what it prefers not to call Tibet. Hunters have decimated its wildlife and mountaineers have bagged its peaks. Today, machinery gouges minerals out of its rock. Roughly the size of Europe, the region is one of the most seismically active on the planet. Summers bring avalanches, rainfall triggers landslides and winters obliterate trails. Glaciers retreat, rivers change course and whole lakes quietly evaporate. To some, Himalaya is an otherworldly realm, profoundly life-changing, yet forbidding and forbidden. It has mesmerised scholars and mystics, sportsmen and spies, pilgrims and mapmakers who have mingled with the farmers and traders on the 'Roof of the World'. Himalaya is the story of one of the last great wildernesses and, in particular, of the bizarre discoveries and improbable achievements of its pioneers. Ranging from botany to trade, from the Great Game to today's geopolitics, John Keay draws on a lifetime of exploration and study to enlighten and delight with this lively biography of a region in crisis.
