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Through a land of extremes : the Littledales of Central Asia

This book was copied from the amazing and wonderful PAHAR: Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset, a labor of love by two dedicated and talented historians. We encourage you to visit them, and subscribe to their list for updates on new books as they are uploaded. · 379 pages : 23 cm · Just a husband and wife traveling with a little dog. Suddenly Teresa asked Willie to give her the Mannlicher. The number two Tibetan lama tried to dash out of the tent but St. George collared him and hauled him back. Teresa handed the rifle to the Tibetan chief, and with tears streaming down her face she ordered him to shoot her, saying she would rather die than go back the way they had come. Teresa and St. George Littledale were not exactly the average Victorian couple. At a time when wives quickly became mothers and men with money concentrated on increasing their wealth, the Littledales pursued a different course. They traveled together through remote regions by horseback, palki, tonga, tarantass, and foot, bringing back plant and animal specimens for museums as well as, very likely, intelligence for the British foreign office. Their journeys took them to within 49 miles of the Forbidden City of

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