Adventures in Tibet Author:William Carey Subtitle: Including the Diary of Miss Annie R. Taylor's Remarkable Journey From Tau-Chau to Ta-Chien-Lu Through the Heart of the "forbidden Land." General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1901 Original Publisher: United society of Christian endeavor Subjects: Tibet (China) Tibet History / Asia / General Histor... more »y / Asia / China Religion / Buddhism / General Religion / Buddhism / Tibetan Travel / Asia / China Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II THE ENCHANTED LAND book takes nothing for granted except the general ignorance on so remote a subject. "Where is Tibet?" Miss Taylor was constantly asked as she went among the churches of England and Scotland after her return. Occasionally the wildest guesses were made, some placing it north of the British Isles, some in the heart of Africa, and some amongst the isles of the Pacific. Nor is this ignorance to be wondered at. In the days when most of us were at school practically the only book on the subject was Hue's " Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China." And it was a book very variously esteemed. Few, perhaps, ventured to take it seriously. M. Hue might be a charming romancist, but he could scarcely be credited as a sober narrator of facts. His book was not taught in the schools ; and Tibet remained simply a blank, or a blind eye, on the maps of the world. Almost all the real exploration of the country has been done in the last twenty years, and the bookswhich have made it popular have been published within a single decade. Miss Taylor's vivacious jottings open to us the land as it is, with its color and movement as well as its whiteness and weariness, the land as you and I should see it if we went there to-day. And it i...« less