An atlas of the Himalayas by a 19th century Tibetan Lama : : a journey of discovery / / Diana Lange.
Diana Lange's patient investigations have, in this wonderful piece of detective work, solved the mysteries of six extraordinary maps of routes across Tibet, clearly hand-drawn in the late 1850s by a local artist, known as the British Library's Wise Collection. Diana Lange now reveals not o...
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