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Pioneer in Tibet : The Life and Perils of Dr. Albert Shelton by Douglas A Wissing is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Pioneer in Tibet : The Life and Perils of Dr. Albert Shelton about?
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 West's first interpreters of Tibetan culture, during th
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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Douglas A Wissing
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Publishing Group
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781466892248
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Memoir, Biography, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-25