Pioneer in Tibet

Pioneer In Tibet

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Author :Douglas A Wissing

Condition : Used-Acceptable

Binding : Hard-Back-Noval

Pages : 334

Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan

Language : N/A

Publication Year : N/A

Dr. Albert Shelton was a medical missionary who spent nearly twenty years in the Tibetan borderlands at the start of the last century. 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. During the course of his work in Tibet, he was praised by the Western press as a family man, revered doctor, respected diplomat and fearless adventurer. Driven by his goal of setting up a medical mission within Lhasa, the seat of the Dalai Lama and a city off-limits to Westerners for hundreds of years, Shelton acted as a valued go-between for the Tibetans and Chinese. Tragically, while finalizing his entry into Lhasa, Shelton was shot dead on a remote mountain trail in the Himalayas. Set against the history of early Twentieth-century Tibet and China, Pioneer in Tibet offers a window into the life of a dying breed of adventurer.

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Author :Douglas A Wissing

Condition : Used-Acceptable

Binding : Hard-Back-Noval

Pages : 334

Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan

Language : N/A

Publication Year : N/A

Dr. Albert Shelton was a medical missionary who spent nearly twenty years in the Tibetan borderlands at the start of the last century. 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. During the course of his work in Tibet, he was praised by the Western press as a family man, revered doctor, respected diplomat and fearless adventurer. Driven by his goal of setting up a medical mission within Lhasa, the seat of the Dalai Lama and a city off-limits to Westerners for hundreds of years, Shelton acted as a valued go-between for the Tibetans and Chinese. Tragically, while finalizing his entry into Lhasa, Shelton was shot dead on a remote mountain trail in the Himalayas. Set against the history of early Twentieth-century Tibet and China, Pioneer in Tibet offers a window into the life of a dying breed of adventurer.