1st Edition
An Account of Tibet The Travels of Ippolito Desideri of Pistoia, S.J. 1712- 1727
Edited By Filippo De Filippi
Copyright 2005
536 Pages
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Routledge
504 Pages
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Routledge
536 Pages
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Routledge
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First published in 1932. As well as an extensive introduction, this edition contains notes to all four books, a bibliographical index, a general index and an index of Tibetan words. The introduction is particularly valuable in that it sets the importance of Desideri's mission in the general context of the Jesuit Missions to Tibet. In Desideri's account we receive the first accurate general... Read more
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS, BIBLIOGRAPHY OF DESIDERI, INTRODUCTION. The Jesuit Mission in Tibet, 1625–1721, PREFACE, HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THIBET, and an Account of the Mission and travels in that Country by Father Ippolito Desideri, of the Society of Jesus, written by Himself; 1712–1733, FOREWORD, BOOK THE FIRST, BOOK THE SECOND, BOOK THE THIRD, BOOK THE FOURTH, APPENDIX—Report on Tibet and its Routes, NOTES TO INTRODUCTION, NOTES TO BOOK THE FIRST, NOTES TO BOOK THE SECOND, NOTES TO BOOK THE THIRD, NOTES TO BOOK THE FOURTH, BIBLIOGRAPHICAL INDEX, GENERAL INDEX (TIBETAN WORDS EXCEPTED), INDEX OF TIBETAN WORDS
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Filippo De Filippi
