CABVK1
Cabot, Mabel H: VANISHED KINGDOMS. A Woman Explorer in Tibet, China and Mongolia 1921-1925. New York, 2003. 192 pp. 34 colour and 110 duotone plates. 29x24 cm. Cloth.
GBP 23.00
An account of the expedition undertaken by Janet Elliott Wulsin and her husband Fredrick under the aegis of the National Geographic Society, through distant parts of China, Mongolia and Tibet. The book makes extensive use of the Wulsin's archives, now in the collections of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnography, Harvard University, especially its remarkable photographs - including a number of rare, hand-painted lantern slides - many of which are finely reproduced here.
Subjects: Photography
Can be ordered in, as of: 16/01/2010
Was item 93 in printed List 130.
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