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The narrative describes an overland expedition from Europe across Central Asia and the Tibetan highlands toward China and the Indochinese peninsula. It recounts planning and outfitting, recruiting a caravan and companions, and navigating diplomatic formalities, permits, and local resistance. The travelogue combines vivid landscape and geographic description with ethnographic observations of settlements and people, and it documents daily hardships, logistical improvisation, and the role of chance. Throughout, the account emphasizes exploration aims, scientific and collection-minded objectives, and the practical challenges of crossing poorly known regions.

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Title: L'Asie inconnue

à travers le Tibet

Author: Gabriel Bonvalot

Release date: February 26, 2024 [eBook #73033]

Language: French

Original publication: Paris: Flammarion, 1896

Credits: Laurent Vogel (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library and the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica))

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GABRIEL BONVALOT

L’ASIE INCONNUE

A TRAVERS LE TIBET

PARIS
ERNEST FLAMMARION, ÉDITEUR
26, RUE RACINE, PRÈS L’ODÉON

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PARIS. — IMP. E. FLAMMARION, RUE RACINE, 26.