The French explorer, author and legislator Gabriel Bonvalot (1853 1933) travelled widely in Central Asia in the 1880s. This two-volume English translation by C. B. Pitman of the 1889 90 French original was published in 1891. It describes Bonvalot's expedition across Europe and Asia to French Indochina. Accompanied by Prince Henri d'Orleans whose father, the Duc of Chartres, financed the expedition, Bonvalot left Paris in July 1889. In Volume 2, the expedition succeeds in gaining formal permission to enter Tibet, despite the Lhasa government's usual policy of turning away foreigners. Bonvalot...