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Written by Kedar Nath. By Cassell Illustrated.
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Written by Vikram Sundarji. By Penguin Books.
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Written by Prabhaker Acharya. By Mapin Publishing Gp Pty Ltd.
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Written by Edward Fox. By Short Books.
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- The Hungarian Who Walked To Heaven
Alexander Csoma De Koros 1784-1842
Edward Fox
Short Books 2001, $8.95/£4.99 p/b This is a delightful short biography of an eccentric Hungarian scholar who became one of the fathers of Western studies of Tibetan culture. Educated at an austere Calvinist school until age 31, Csoma De Koros finally set out alone on a pilgrimage to the East, his mission: to discover the roots of the Hungarian people, whom he and others of the time theorized to be descended from Attila the Hun. Due to a Chinese decree restricting foreign entry to Tibet he was sadly never to reach Yarkand, where he hoped to find linguistic proof of the Cenral Asian origins of the Hungarian race. However on his way, via many adventures, misfortunes and disguises, he acquired around 14 languages, became one of the first Europeans to enter Ladakh, and compiled the first relatively reliable Tibetan-English dictionary. Supported and encouraged by the British vet and Superintendent of the East India Company's Stud, William Moorcroft, Csoma went on to study, with Lama Sangye Phuntsog in a remote monastery in Zanskar. For 16 months the two men studied the Tibetan language and vast canon in freezing conditions in a tiny 9 foot square cell. Csoma spent the last years of his life working for the Asiatic Society of Bengal in Calcutta, mastering Marathi, Bengali and Sanskrit, before dying of malaria on a final courageous attempt to travel across Tibet to Western China. A fascinating little book.
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Posted in India (Sunday, October 12, 2008)
Written by Willem Bontekoe. By Routledge.
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Written by Raghubir Singh. By Thames & Hudson.
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Return to India
Little Kingdoms; A Travel With Adventure
The Suragi Tree
The Hungarian Who Walked to Heaven-Alexander Csoma De Koros-1784-1842 (Short Lives)
Memorable Description of the East Indian Voyage 1618-25 (Broadway Travellers)
Banaras: The Sacred City of India
Fodor's India, Nepal and Sri Lanka
Extracts from the Narrative of Anquetil Du Perron's Travels in India
Sri Lanka (Hildebrand's Travel Guide)
The Penguin Guide to the Countries of the World
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