Tibet, Tartary and Mongolia : Their Social and Political Condition, and the Religion of Boodh, as There Existing Paperback / softback
by Henry Thoby Prinsep
Part of the Cambridge Library Collection - South Asian History series
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Henry T. Prinsep (1792–1878) was the son of a prominent East India Company servant, and like his father, he spent much of his life in the East.
He left Britain for Calcutta in 1809, at the age of seventeen, and stayed in India, working in a variety of roles, until his retirement in 1843.
He wrote a number of books about India: in this work, published in 1851, he turns to the north of the subcontinent.
Prinsep draws from travel narratives of the few explorers who had been to this territory – which corresponds to today's western China and Mongolia – to illustrate the lives of the people there.
Using sources ranging from the thirteenth-century account by Marco Polo to eighteenth-century reports by French missionaries, Prinsep brings information on what was then a little-known world to a wider audience.
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- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:30/06/2011
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:184 pages, 1 Maps
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:30/06/2011
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- ISBN:9781108028738
