About the book-: This is a tale of a long and arduous journey through the wild back lands of China, Mongolia and Tibet in the years 1890-91. This book gives a unique snapshot of these regions as they were in the 1890s. At that time the vast area of Tibet, from Tsaparang in the West to Xining in the North and Chamdo in the South-East, was underu the rule of the powerful Lamas. In the following pages I have endeavored to give the results obtained during a journey of several thousand miles through a very imperfectly known portion of the Chinese Empire. My object has been to supply facts concerning the country, of an historical, geographical, and ethnographical nature, and not to attempt to turn out a well-finished bit of literary work.Besides the notes collected on my journey, I have been able to improve and complete my work in many cases by those made during a four years’ residence in Peking About The Author -: William Woodville Rockhill (1854 – 1914) was a United States diplomat, best known as the author of the U.S. Open Door Policy for China, the first American to learn to speak Tibetan, and one of the West's leading experts on the modern political history of China. In 1876, Rockhill returned to the United States, and on December 14, 1876, he married his childhood sweetheart, Caroline Tyson, daughter of J. Washington Tyson and Marie Louise (Hewling) Tyson of Philadelphia. The couple purchased a cattle ranch in New Mexico, but Rockhill concluded that ranching was not to his liking. By 1880, he had completed a French language translation of the Tibetan version of the Udanavarga, which was published in 1881. He sent an account of his travels to the Smithsonian Institution for publication (as The Land of the Lamas (1891)), and in 1893, he was awarded the Gold Patron's Medal of the Royal Geographical Society. Rockhill wrote a glossary of Salar in his 1894 book Diary of a Journey through Mongolia and Tibet in 1891 and 1892. During the administration of President of the United States Grover Cleveland, Rockhill served as Third Assistant Secretary of State from April 17, 1894 The Title 'The Land Of Lamas: Notes Of A Journey Through China, Monolia And Tibet written/authored/edited by William Woodville Rockhill', published in the year 2021. The ISBN 9788121223676 is assigned to the Paperback version of this title. This book has total of pp. 425 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Gyan Publishing House. This Book is in English. . Size of the book is 13.34 x 21.59 cms Vol:-
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