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The Mapping of Tibet: A Journey through Different Mapping Practices

Year: 2024

Type: other

Abstract: For many years I have undertaken extensive research on the maps in the British Library’s Wise Collection – showing the route between Lhasa in Central Tibet and Ladakh in the Western Himalayas over a length of more than ten metres (Lange 2020). They were made in the late 1850s by a Tibetan lama who was commissioned by a British official to draw up the panorama of a region which was practically inaccessible to Europeans at the time. Using the Wise Collection, I documented how and with what int...

Source: Industrias Culturais (Universidade de Coimbra)

DOI: 10.58079/12rkx

Author: Diana Lange

Language: English

Topic: Historical Geography and Cartography

Subfield: Geography, Planning and Development

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W6899110557

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