Author: Dutreuil de Rhins, Jules-Léon.
Title: Mémoire Géographique sur le Thibet Oriental. Extrait du Bulletin de la Société de Géographie (2e et 3e trimestres 1887).
Description: Paris, Société de Géographie, 1887. 125 pp. 5 fol. b./w maps of Tibet (photoengr. lithographs). Orig. softcover (printed wrappers). 8vo. - Front cover dam. along the edges & parly loose; pieces of back cover missing; two small collection stamps; foxing.Rare geographical study on Eastern Tibet by traveler and adventurer Jules-Léon Dutreuil de Rhins. Copies in the original cover are very rare. - Jules Léon Dutreuil de Rhins (2 January 1846 - 5 June 1894) was a French geographer and explorer, born at Saint-Étienne. He took part as a midshipman of naval volunteers in the expedition to Mexico and was an ensign during the Franco-Prussian War. From 1871 to 1876 he was captain of a foreign-going ship, in 1876-1877 commanded the Scorpion of the King of Annam's navy, and in 1882 was Egyptian correspondent of the Temps. From 1891 to 1894 he explored Chinese Turkestan (East Turkestan) and the most inaccessible and least-known regions of northern and western Tibet. He was murdered by natives at a small town of eastern Tibet in 1894. [Source: Wikipedia].

Keywords: Ethnography Asia Tibet Himalaya Travel Asia Etnografie Azië Reizen Azië