Early ethnographic accounts of Inner Asia collection

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Aus Sibiren [From Siberia]
Radloff, Wilhelm

This book proposes a theory of cultural evolution, involving a passage from hunting to pastoralism and finally to agriculture. Radloff argues that Siberian culture was shaped by shamanism.

subject: cultural evolution

James Gilmour of Mongolia : his diaries, letters and reports
Gilmour, James

James Gilmour was a Scottish Protestant missionary who served with the London Missionary Society in Mongolia and China, from 1870 until his death in 1891.

subject: diaries

Mongolia, the Tangut country, and the solitudes of northern Tibet, Vol. 2
Przhewalskii, Nikolai

subject: expeditions, geography

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

Travels in Tartary, Thibet and China during the years 1844-5-6, Vol. 2
Huc, Evariste Régis

subject: expeditions

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