(DOWNLOAD) "Among the Tibetans" by Isabella L. Bird # Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Among the Tibetans
- Author : Isabella L. Bird
- Release Date : January 01, 2018
- Genre: Travel & Adventure,Books,Specialty Travel,Reference,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 338 KB
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At some little distance outside Leh are the cremation grounds-desert places, destitute of any other vegetation than the Caprifolia horrida. Each family has its furnace kept in good repair. The place is doleful, and a funeral scene on the only sunless day I experienced in Ladak was indescribably dismal. After death no one touches the corpse but the lamas, who assemble in numbers in the case of a rich man.
Isabella L. Bird (15 October 1831 – 7 October 1904), was a nineteenth-century English explorer, writer, photographer, and naturalist. With Fanny Jane Butler she founded the John Bishop Memorial hospital in Srinagar. She was the first woman to be elected Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.