Abstract
GENERAL PEREIRA'S notes, from which this volume has been compiled by Sir Francis Younghusband, cover three journeys. Of these, the first from Peking to Lhasa and India is the longest and the one of which the account is the most detailed. It is also the most interesting, for the author was the first European to succeed in reaching Lhasa from China since 1848, when Pères Hue and Gabet reached the Holy City from this direction. This journey was in itself a remarkable feat for a man nearly sixty years of age and physically weak; but almost immediately he started on his second journey from Burma to Shanghai, and then, in attempting to traverse China from south to north, he died in 1923 while on his way from Yunnan to Kansu.
From Peking to Lhasa: the Narrative of Journeys in the Chinese Empire made by the late Brig.-General George Pereira.
Compiled by Sir Francis Younghusband. from Notes and Diaries supplied by Major-General Sir Cecil Pereira. Pp. x + 293 + 33 plates. (London: Constable and Co., Ltd., 1925.) 18s. net.
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From Peking to Lhasa: the Narrative of Journeys in the Chinese Empire made by the late Brig-General George Pereira . Nature 117, 480 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/117480a0
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