City plan of Lhasa, Tibet, with an impressive level of detail. Compiled from native sources by Lieut. Col. Laurence Austine Waddell, a surgeon in the Younghusband Expedition to Lhasa of 1904. Waddell was an army surgeon and amateur archaeologist who is considered by some to be the real-life inspiration for Indiana Jones. Though his academic work is largely discredited now, his books were very popular with the Victorian British public.
Published in the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society. [IC2532] |