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Lädt ... Among the Tibetans (1894)von Isabella L. Bird
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. A late nineteenth century travelogue of a trip from northern India to Ladakh and back taken by an adventurous Victorian woman and her motley caravan. The Tibetans of the title are the ethnic Tibetans of Ladakh, an area currently part of the Jammu and Kashmir district of India and closely tied to Tibet culturally and religiously. Bird became extremely fond of the people during her journey of several months, and there are some beautiful descriptions of scenery and people, but also a rather condescending and racist attitude typical of Victorian age. Some of the party's adventures are quite vividly described as well, and they underline Isabella's extraordinary character in the tightly proscribed world of Victorian English womanhood. ( ) Quite good really, and I read it in a Kindle public-domain freebie which lacked the illustrations. This is one that almost certainly should be read in treeware (and there seem to be a number of moderately priced current paperback editions that are easily available). Bird is obviously writing with the prejudices of late-Victorian British imperialists. One interesting observation is of the indigenous parent who expresses a thought that he might have his son convert to Christianity (Bird's narration significantly features some Moravian missionaries) but that he himself would remain with the old religion — which reminds me of some of the compromises made by fathers in Chinua Achebe's "African trilogy." Zeige 3 von 3 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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HTML: "There never was anybody," wrote the Spectator, "who had adventures as well as Miss Bird." In Among the Tibetans you can see why, as Isabella Lucy Bird writes of her journey through the Himalayas on horseback and of her four months of living with "the pleasantest of people." She offers evocative and colourful descriptions of Tibetan rituals and culture, along with vivid descriptions of its villages, monasteries, temples and palaces. "Up to Kargil the scenery, though growing more Tibetan with every march, had exhibited at intervals some traces of natural verdure; but beyond, after leaving the Suru, there is not a green thing, and on the next march the road crosses a lofty, sandy plateau, on which the heat was terrible - blazing gravel and a blazing heaven, then fiery cliffs and scorched hillsides, then a deep ravine and the large village of Paskim (dominated by a fort-crowned rock), and some planted and irrigated acres; then a narrow ravine and magnificent scenery flaming with colour, which opens out after some miles on a burning chaos of rocks and sand, mountain-girdled, and on some remarkable dwellings on a steep slope, with religious buildings singularly painted. This is Shergol, the first village of Buddhists, and there I was 'among the Tibetans.'" .Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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