Littledale, St. George R. (1851-1931)

V letech 1894-1895 podnikl výpravu napříč Tibetem. Překročil Transhimálaje, prošel kolem j. Dagtse-tso a Tengri-nor (L. není v Masarykově slovníku).

Teresa and St. George Littledale were not the average Victorian couple. At a time when wives quickly became mothers and men with money concentrated on increasing their wealth, the Littleclales pursued a cliflierent course. They travelled together through remote regions by horseback, palbi, mnga, taranam, and foot, bringing back plant and animal specimens for museums as well as, very likely, intelligence for the British Foreign Office. Their journeys took them to within forty-nine miles of the Forbidden City of Lhasa, closer than any Europeans had been since the city was closed to foreigners. More than once they put their lives at risk. But although St. George presented papers to the Royal Geographical Society (RGS), he did not write books and the Littledales' story was all but forgotten - Until a chance mention led Elizabeth and Nicholas Clinch on an exploration of their own.

How did a sickly girl from Canada find herself facing down 150 armed men on a lonely 19.000-foot pass in Tibet? How did a boy nicknamed “Lazy” at his British school end up having an Asian sheep named after him? And why did the RGS present a silver collar to a fox terrier named Tanny? In Through a Land of Extremes the Clinches draw on diaries, letters, and half-forgotten archives to create a comprehensive account of the lives and times of an unlikely adventurous couple.

1877-8 KASHMIR
1879 ROCKY MOUNTAINS, WYOMING
1881 BIGHORN MOUNTAINS, WYOMING
1882 YELLOWSTONE
1884 ALASKA
1886 CAUCASUS (Kavkaz)
1887 CAUCASUS
1888 PAMIRS
1889 RUSSIAN CENTRAL ASIA AND MONGOLIA (ALAI AND ALTAI)
1890 ACROSS PAMIRS FROM RUSSIA TO INDIA
1891 CAUCASUS
1893 ACROSS RUSSIAN AND CHINESE CENTRAL ASIA TO PEKING
1894-5 TIBET
1897 SIBERIA AND MONGOLIAN ALTAI
1900 KAMCHATKA
1901 TIEN SHAN
1902 TRANSCASPIAN REGION (RUSSIAN CENTRAL ASIA AND NORTHERN PERSIA)
1904 ALASKA
1907 NEWFOUNDLAND
1908 EAST CAUCASUS

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