From Manchuria to Tibet. A Quarter Century of Exploration.
by WONG, HOW MAN AND JULIE GAW
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 1864489863
- ISBN 13
- 9781864489866
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About This Item
Hong Kong.: Odyssey.. 1998.. Maps endpapers, colour photographic illustrations, xiii + 231pp, bibliography, glossary, index, hardback, minor wear dustjacket spine edges, 28 x 28.5cm, very good copy. This book chronicles a quarter of a century of explorer Wong How Man's Inner Asian expeditions, providing a rare glimpse of ethnic groups, including the Uygurs, as of the late 20th century. Here in the hinterlands of Asia, from Manchuria and Mongolia to the Silk Road and Tibetan Plateau, traditions carry on as they have for centuries, as modernisation slowly makes its way. The book political boundaries to focus on the diversity and interconnectedness of unique peoples in beautifully unusual landscapes. The author has spent 25 years focused on these remote areas of Inner Asia, where few foreigners tread. .
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- Bookseller
- Asia Bookroom (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 170443
- Title
- From Manchuria to Tibet. A Quarter Century of Exploration.
- Author
- WONG, HOW MAN AND JULIE GAW
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1864489863
- ISBN 13
- 9781864489866
- Publisher
- Odyssey.
- Place of Publication
- Hong Kong.
- Date Published
- 1998.
- Keywords
- Anthropology, Asia, China, East Asia, Exploration, Manchuria, Mongolia, Photography, Tibet, Uighur, Xinjiang, zz_Gallery_Out_of_Print_and_Secondhand_Books
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