The Land of the Lamas

Notes of a Journey through China, Mongolia and Tibet. With maps and illustrations.

Elibron Classics Series. This is a digitized replica of 1891 edition by Longmans, Green, and Co., London.
This is an Illustrated edition. The edition includes maps available as a free download.  

This is an account of two extended expeditions into western China, Mongolia and Tibet Rockhill made in 1880s.. He sent an account of his travels to the Smithsonian Institution for publication (as The Land of the Lamas (1891)), and in 1893, he was awarded the Gold Patron’s Medal of the Royal Geographical Society. Artifacts from Rockhill’s expeditions are in the collections of the Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, and archival materials are in their associated archives, the National Anthropological Archives.