Tibet – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com Blogging about maps since 2003 Sat, 25 Jul 2020 18:46:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.maproomblog.com/xq/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/cropped-logo-2017-04-32x32.jpg Tibet – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com 32 32 116787204 An Atlas of the Himalayas https://www.maproomblog.com/2020/07/an-atlas-of-the-himalayas/ Sat, 25 Jul 2020 18:46:21 +0000 https://www.maproomblog.com/?p=1789050 More]]> An Atlas of the Himalayas (book cover)In An Atlas of the Himalayas by a 19th Century Tibetan Monk (Brill), Diana Lange explores the origins of six maps drawn by an anonymous Tibetan artist for a Scottish explorer in the mid-19th century, and how those maps ended up in the British Library. For more on Lange’s research into this subject, see her guest post on the British Library’s map blog.

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]]> 1789050 A Historical Atlas of Tibet https://www.maproomblog.com/2016/10/a-historical-atlas-of-tibet/ Wed, 19 Oct 2016 14:51:50 +0000 http://www.maproomblog.com/?p=3099 More]]> historical-atlas-tibetKarl E. Ryavec’s Historical Atlas of Tibet (University of Chicago Press, May 2015) was reviewed in India Today by an unusual personage: Nirupama Rao, who among other things has served as India’s ambassador to China and the U.S. Rao calls it “a much-needed and welcome work of scholarship that should benefit and enlighten committed scholars and Tibet aficionados alike. This is a 200-page atlas that is a revelation in itself.” [Tony Campbell]

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