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About the Book: Pioneer in Tibet: The Life and Perils of Dr. Albert Shelton
Dr. Albert Shelton was a medical missionary and explorer who spent nearly
twenty years in the Tibetan borderlands at the start of the last century. During
the Great Game era, the Sheltons sprawling station in Kham was the most remote
and dangerous mission on earth. Raising his family in a land of banditry and
civil war, caught between a weak Chinese government and the British Raj, Shelton
proved to be a resourceful frontiersman. One of the Wests first interpreters of
Tibetan culture, during the course of his work in Tibet, he
ISBN-13
9781403963284
Language
English
Binding
Hard Bound
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Publishing Date
2004
Total Pages
352
Pioneer in Tibet: The Life and Perils of Dr. Albert Shelton
About the Book: Pioneer in Tibet: The Life and Perils of Dr. Albert Shelton
Dr. Albert Shelton was a medical missionary and explorer who spent nearly
twenty years in the Tibetan borderlands at the start of the last century. During
the Great Game era, the Sheltons sprawling station in Kham was the most remote
and dangerous mission on earth. Raising his family in a land of banditry and
civil war, caught between a weak Chinese government and the British Raj, Shelton
proved to be a resourceful frontiersman. One of the Wests first interpreters of
Tibetan culture, during the course of his work in Tibet, he