L'Asie inconnue

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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.

TABLE DES MATIÈRES

			Pages
Chap.	I.	Dans le Tien Chan chinois	1
—	II.	Dans le Tien Chan chinois (suite)	25
—	III.	Le Tarim et le Lob Nor	45
—	IV.	Les hauts plateaux	81
—	V.	La recherche d’une route	113
—	VI.	La recherche d’une route (suite)	141
—	VII.	Les lacs les plus élevés du monde	177
—	VIII.	Les Tibétains pasteurs	207
—	IX.	Les gens de Lhaça	239
—	X.	Les gens de Lhaça (suite)	259
—	XI.	Le Tibet habité	277
—	XII.	Le Tibet habité (suite)	297
—	XIII.	L’est du Tibet	327
—	XIV.	Par la Chine au Tonkin	355

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