Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China, 1844-1846

by Évariste Régis Huc and William Hazlitt

Book Overview

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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486254380
• ISBN13: 9780486254388
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 2 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 5.3" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

A beautiful book about a beautiful trip...

Is there anyone who has traveled in Thibet in our days andreached that famous place in Amdo and has seen the treewith the letters on the leaves?

Two travellers on an epic journey in an antique land

I got this book because I was researching central Asia, and then didn't read it for a couple of years. When I finally did, I couldn't put it down. This is a true account by two French priests who travelled by camel and horse, first to Mongolia and then to Tibet in the 1840s. What they saw and did is fabulously interesting, but the joy of this book is that it's wonderfully written. Huc, who actually wrote it, is a kind of 19th Century Paul Theroux, but without the sour attitude. This book is a great read