expeditions subject index
List of early Western explorers and travellers in Inner Asia
Thrift, Eric
Table listing principal Western explorers who investigated the society and culture of Inner Asia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
subject: expeditions, explorers
Sven Hedin’s expedition through the Gobi
Hedin, Sven
A silent documentary made in 1928 of Swedish explore Sven Hedin’s expedition through the Gobi desert of Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang.
subject: Gobi, ethnographic film, expeditions, explorers
Mongolia, the Tangut country, and the solitudes of northern Tibet, Vol. 1
Przhewalskii, Nikolai
Two-volume report of Colonel Przhewalskii’s expedition in Inner Asia, sponsored by the Geographical Society of Russia.
subject: expeditions, geography
Путешествия Г.Н. Потанина по Китаю, Тибету и Монголии [Travels of GN Potanin in China, Tibet, and Mongolia]
Potanin, GN
Grigory Potanin was a Russian ethnographer and natural historian, whose work concerned Mongolian and Uighur language and culture.
subject: expeditions
Through Asia, Vol. 2
Hedin, Sven
[From the preface] This work does not claim to be anything more than a plain account of my journeys through Asia during the years 1893 to 1897.
subject: expeditions
Travels in Tartary, Thibet and China during the years 1844-5-6, Vol. 2
Huc, Evariste Régis
subject: expeditions
Mongolia, the Tangut country, and the solitudes of northern Tibet, Vol. 2
Przhewalskii, Nikolai
subject: expeditions, geography
Through Asia, Vol. 1
Hedin, Sven
[From the preface] This work does not claim to be anything more than a plain account of my journeys through Asia during the years 1893 to 1897.
subject: expeditions
A Journey Across Central Asia, from Manchuria and Peking to Kashmir, over the Mustagh Pass
Younghusband, Francis
Lieutenant Colonel Sir Francis Edward Younghusband (1863–1942) was an explorer and military officer.
subject: expeditions, geography
Across Mongolian plains; a naturalist's account of China's "great northwest"
Andrews, Roy Chapman
A popular narrative of the second Asiatic expedition of the American Museum of Natural History, 1918-1919.
subject: expeditions
Expeditions of Sven Hedin
Unknown
Map depicting the routes of Sven Hedin’s exploring expeditions, 1886-1935.
subject: expeditions, maps
Map of NK Roerich’s Central Asian expeditions
Roerich Museum
Map showing the expedition routes of NK Roerich, from the Roerich Museum.
subject: expeditions, maps
Map of Evariste Huc’s travels
Dufour, H
Map accompanying “Souvenirs d’un voyage dans la Tartarie, le Thibet et la Chine”, Evariste Huc, 1850
subject: expeditions, maps
Central Asia from Peking to Yarkand and Kashmir via the Mustagh Pass: Illustrating the journeys of Captain F. E. Younghusband, Kings Dragoon Guards
Murray, John
A map showing the route of Frank E Younghusband on his trip from Beijing to Kashmir.
subject: expeditions, maps