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- catalog abstract ""Dr. Albert Shelton was a medical missionary and explorer who spent nearly twenty years in the Tibetan borderlands at the start of the last century. During the Great Game era, the Shelton's sprawling station in Kham was the most remote and dangerous mission on earth. Raising his family in a land of banditry and civil war, caught between a weak Chinese government and the British Raj, Shelton proved to be a resourceful frontiersman. One of the West's first interpreters of Tibetan culture, during the course of his work in Tibet he was praised by the Western press as a family man, revered doctor, respected diplomat, and fearless adventurer. To the American public, Dr. Albert Shelton was Daniel Boone, Wyatt Earp, and the apostle Paul on a new frontier. Driven by his goal of setting up a medical mission within Lhasa, the seat of the Dalai Lama and a city off-limits to Westerners for hundreds of years, Shelton acted as a valued go-between for the Tibetans and Chinese. Recognizing his work, the Dalai Lama issued Shelton an invitation to Lhasa. Tragically, while finalizing his entry, Shelton was shot to death on a remote mountain trail in the Himalayas. Set against the exciting history of early twentieth century Tibet and China, Pioneer in Tibet offers a window into the life of a dying breed of adventurer."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog alternative "Pioneer in Tibet: life and perils of Dr. Albert Shelton".
- catalog contributor b13155473.
- catalog coverage "Tibet Autonomous Region (China) Description and travel.".
- catalog created "2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2004.".
- catalog description ""Dr. Albert Shelton was a medical missionary and explorer who spent nearly twenty years in the Tibetan borderlands at the start of the last century. During the Great Game era, the Shelton's sprawling station in Kham was the most remote and dangerous mission on earth. Raising his family in a land of banditry and civil war, caught between a weak Chinese government and the British Raj, Shelton proved to be a resourceful frontiersman. One of the West's first interpreters of Tibetan culture, during the course of his work in Tibet he was praised by the Western press as a family man, revered doctor, respected diplomat, and fearless adventurer. To the American public, Dr. Albert Shelton was Daniel Boone, Wyatt Earp, and the apostle Paul on a new frontier.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "Driven by his goal of setting up a medical mission within Lhasa, the seat of the Dalai Lama and a city off-limits to Westerners for hundreds of years, Shelton acted as a valued go-between for the Tibetans and Chinese. Recognizing his work, the Dalai Lama issued Shelton an invitation to Lhasa. Tragically, while finalizing his entry, Shelton was shot to death on a remote mountain trail in the Himalayas. Set against the exciting history of early twentieth century Tibet and China, Pioneer in Tibet offers a window into the life of a dying breed of adventurer."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-326) and index.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 334 p. :".
- catalog identifier "1403963282".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Palgrave Macmillan,".
- catalog spatial "China Tibet Autonomous Region".
- catalog spatial "Tibet Autonomous Region (China) Description and travel.".
- catalog spatial "Tibet".
- catalog subject "2004 D-419".
- catalog subject "951/.5035/092 B 22".
- catalog subject "DS785 .W57 2004".
- catalog subject "Missionaries China Tibet Autonomous Region Biography.".
- catalog subject "Missionaries Tibet Biography.".
- catalog subject "Religious Missions China Tibet Autonomous Region Biography.".
- catalog subject "Religious Missions Tibet Biography.".
- catalog subject "Shelton, A. L. (Albert Leroy), 1875-1922 Travel China Tibet Autonomous Region.".
- catalog subject "Shelton, A. L. (Albert Leroy), 1875-1922 Travel China Tibet.".
- catalog subject "Shelton, A. L. (Albert Leroy), 1875-1922.".
- catalog subject "WZ 100 S544W 2004".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "Pioneer in Tibet / Douglas A. Wissing.".
- catalog title "Pioneer in Tibet: life and perils of Dr. Albert Shelton".
- catalog type "text".