Pioneer in Tibet / Douglas A. Wissing.

  • Wissing, Douglas A.
Date:
2004
  • Books

About this work

Also known as

Life and perils of Dr. Albert Shelton

Publication/Creation

New York ; Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

Physical description

xiii, 334 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Contributors

Contents

Blood or Bread: His Early Life, 1875-1880 -- Strange Country: The Frontier Education of Albert Shelton, 1880-1893 -- Good towns and tibetan Dreams: Respectability and Romance, 1895-1903 -- Journey to the Borderlands: From the Midwest to Himalayas -- The Portal: Tachienlu and the Land of Kham -- Bayonets to Kham: Chao Erh-Feng and the Christian Missionaries -- The Doctor in Kham: 1908-1909 -- Conquests, Curios, and Conversions: Batang, 1909-1910 -- This Great Awful City: Furlough, 1910-1913 -- Shattered Charms and new perspectives: Batang, 1914-1917 -- The Next Livingstone: Shelton in Kham, 1918-1919 -- The Devil's Own Cauldron: Yunnan, 1919-1920 -- The Hero Returns: Furlough, 1920-1921 -- Back to Batang, 1921 -- The Thorn Bush, 1922.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-326) and index.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    BZP (Shelton)
    		Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 1403963282