Pioneering in Tibet is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1898.
Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes thes...
Excerpt from Pioneering in TibetChina, that they were being accepted and sent out by the China Inland Mission, and that their labours were being blessed in the Flowery Land. When very young she read in 'near Home and Far Off' accounts Of that strange mysterious region SO rigidly Closed against Europeans, and in this way Tibet seems to have laid hold Of her mind.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and clas...
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...
Excerpt from Pioneering in Tibet
I Was born in Egremont, Cheshire, and am the second child in a family of five sons and five daughters. My governesses and nurses say that I was a most troublesome child, and very full of mischief. When about seven years of age, the doctor discovered that I had valvular disease of the heart. Two years later I had an attack of acute bronchitis, when my life was despaired of, and this further affected my heart. T...
Pioneering in Tibet is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1895.
Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres.As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature.Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these ...