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Peking to Lhasa. The narrative of journeys in the Chinese Empire made by the late brigadier-general George Pereira ... With maps and illustrations.

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First edition. An account of Pereira’s journeys through China and Tibet between 1921 and 1923 compiled from his diaries by his friend and fellow explorer, Francis Younghusband, founder of the Royal Central Asian Society.

‘George Pereira died in 1923 on the borders of China and Tibet at almost the close of the third of three remarkable journeys made in succession through the Chinese Empire. The first and most important was from Peking across Tibet to Lhasa and India. This was a great enough journey in itself to satisfy most men; but no sooner had he completed it than he started off back again – this time from west to east instead of from east to west – across the Chinese Empire from Burma to Shanghai. And even this was not enough: not content with travelling from east to west and west to east, he must needs now travel from south to north. And it was on his way from Yūnnan to Kansu that he finally succumbed’ (p. 1).

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