A Henry Savage Landor 1st Ed 1899 In the Forbidden Land Journey into Tibet HC

Description: Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Harper & Brothers, New York & London. 1899. 2 Volumes. xvi, 307 and xii, 250 pgs. Illustrated with Color / Black and White Plates. First Edition/First Printing. Bound in illustrated green cloth boards with gilt titles present. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities (light soil present to the edges of the boards, wear present to the extremities). Previous owner's name present to the FFEP with a large piece missing from the FFEP. Text is clean and free of marks. This is a late nineteenth century tale of a British Raj `action man' who was determined to take on Tibet, welcome or not. And as it eventuated, definitely `not' - but he didn't know how to take the hint. Pushing on regardless, through horrific trials and torture (with some nasty sadomasochistic overtones) - it was a terrible shame he saw fit to have the pain and suffering inflicted on his hapless local followers as well. The author's brutal reflections on the supposedly cowardly, corrupt, inhospitable, elitist exploiters - the lamas - are confronting and bear little semblance to our current understanding of these spiritual leaders. Has the world really changed that much - perhaps the author was living the Walter Mitty life or experiencing a hyper-clash of cultures? At a more Machiavellian level, perhaps a set up for the British invasion of Tibet just a few years later? A Henry Savage Landor 1st Ed 1899 In the Forbidden Land Journey into Tibet HC Click images to enlarge Description Up For Sale Today is In the Forbidden Land An Account of a Journey into Tibet Capture by the Tibetan Lamas and Soldiers, Imprisonment, Torture and Ultimate Release brought about by Dr. Wilson and the Political Peshkar Karak Sing-Pal by A. Henry Savage Landor Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Harper & Brothers, New York & London. 1899. 2 Volumes. xvi, 307 and xii, 250 pgs. Illustrated with Color / Black and White Plates. First Edition/First Printing. Bound in illustrated green cloth boards with gilt titles present. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities (light soil present to the edges of the boards, wear present to the extremities). Previous owner's name present to the FFEP with a large piece missing from the FFEP. Text is clean and free of marks. This is a late nineteenth century tale of a British Raj `action man' who was determined to take on Tibet, welcome or not. And as it eventuated, definitely `not' - but he didn't know how to take the hint. Pushing on regardless, through horrific trials and torture (with some nasty sadomasochistic overtones) - it was a terrible shame he saw fit to have the pain and suffering inflicted on his hapless local followers as well. The author's brutal reflections on the supposedly cowardly, corrupt, inhospitable, elitist exploiters - the lamas - are confronting and bear little semblance to our current understanding of these spiritual leaders. Has the world really changed that much - perhaps the author was living the Walter Mitty life or experiencing a hyper-clash of cultures? At a more Machiavellian level, perhaps a set up for the British invasion of Tibet just a few years later? FROM WIKIPEDIA: Arnold Henry Savage Landor (1865 – 26 December 1924) was an English painter, explorer, writer, and anthropologist. Landor wrote in a dry, witty style. He was born to Charles Savage Landor in Florence, Italy, where he spent his childhood. The writer Walter Savage Landor was his grandfather. He left for Paris at fifteen to study at the Académie Julian directed by Gustave Boulanger and Jules Lefebvre. He then travelled the world, including America, Japan and Korea, painting many landscapes and portraits and on his return to England was invited to Balmoral by Queen Victoria to recount his adventures and show his drawings. He later travelled to Nepal and Tibet, telling of his experiences in two books: In the Forbidden Land (1898) and Tibet and Nepal (1905). When he heard about the Boxer Rebellion in China he went to Peking (now Beijing) to join the victory parade, afterwards writing China and the Allies (1901). In 1901 he travelled from Russia to India, riding on horseback through Persia, publishing the account of that journey in the book Across Coveted Lands (1902). A journey to the Philippines led to another book: The Gems of the East (1904). In the 1900s he visited Abyssinia and painted the portrait of the Emperor Menelik. Across Wildest Africa was published in 1906. In 1911 and 1912 he made an eventful expedition to the Mato Grosso in Brazil and in 1913 published Across Unknown South America. He took an active role in the First World War, designing tanks and airships. Eventually, exhausted by his travels he retired to write his autobiography in Florence, where he died in 1924. 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