Asian Trips - Vanished Kingdoms: A Woman Explorer in Tibet, China, and Mongolia 1921-1925
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Manufacturer: Aperture
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 915.1
EAN: 9781931788083
ISBN: 1931788081
Label: Aperture
Manufacturer: Aperture
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 192
Publication Date: 2003-03-01
Publisher: Aperture
Release Date: 2005-06-15
Studio: Aperture
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In the early 1920s, the last great age of world explorers, a remarkable young woman, Janet Elliott Wulsin, set out with her husband, Frederick Wulsin, for the far reaches of China, Tibet, and Outer Mongolia to study the people, flora and fauna of the region. Wulsin's strenuous, eventful exploration is detailed by a text enriched with excerpts from her candid personal letters. The journey proved to be a test of the Wulsins' endurance and of their relationship. While in Asia, the Wulsins took many extraordinary photographs, which form the heart of this richly-produced publication. They documented tribespeople and sublime desert landscapes, and, most remarkably, were allowed to photograph the interior of several of the great Tibetan Buddhist lamaseries, including Choni, Kumbum, and Labrang. Several dozen rare, hand-painted lantern slides survived and are reproduced here in splendid color. The photographs from the Wulsin Expedition, now in the collection of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard Unversity, in collaboration with whom this volume is being produced, are a testament to the great spirit and success of a remarkable woman explorer. "[the] pictures are thrilling and romantic: Janet in various native costumes, the insides of temples never before photographed . . . (sun-glasses, boots, rustic camps, also make this a costume designer's fantasy of a book)." --Los Angeles Times "Janet Wulsin covered thousands of miles in remote China on foot, mule, camel and raft, developing and cataloguing astonishingly beautiful, otherwordly photographs . . . Wulsin's diaries and letters are as illustrative and vivid as the photos themselves." --Washington Post Edited and Essay by Mabel H. Cabot. Preface by Rubie Watson. Hardcover, 11.25 x 9.75 in./192 pgs / 139 color.
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Summary: Vanished Kingdoms
Comment: Fascinating book of adventure & discovery. For the reader the fact that the photographs, taken in the 1920s are gorgeous and outstanding, is a revelation for us. Also a very interesting human interest story is revealed.
I thouroughly enjoyed it and encourage others to take this journey to a world no longer available to us.
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Summary: 80 years after...
Comment: 80 years after, we know a voyage thru the Tibet, Chine and Mongolia for the eyes and the pen of a young lady. A different land and people, a great aventure, great images, someones hand-coloured.
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Summary: A rich archive of treasures
Comment: In the early 1920s, explorer Janet Wulsin and her husband Frederick journeyed the far reaches of China and Tibet to study the people and the lands of these remote regions - the photos from their expedition come to life in this collection, along with several dozen hand-painted lantern slides that appear in color. Vanished Kingdomsis a rich archive of treasures which charts the findings and peoples of a bygone world. Any serious collection of Asian treasures - both art and cultural - will find Vanished Kingdoms an essential addition, unparalleled in scope and coverage.
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