No damage to book, DJ has very slight signs of age or use. He was responsible for the metamorphosis and remarkably rapid emergence of the U.S. as a decisive player in world affairs.

Theodore Roosevelt and the Great White Fleet: American Sea Power Comes of Age

History

Wimmel, Kenneth

Military

University Of Nebraska Press

Potomac Books Inc.

Daring expeditions on camel and yak; biplanes buffeted by gales in the Himalayas; shootouts with bandits as paleontologists race across the Mongolian steppes; lost cities beneath desert dunes, priceless art treasures and manuscripts along the ancient Silk Road - here are real-life adventures in the great uncharted "alluring target" of Central Asia at the dawn of the modern age. Rescued from obscurity and profiled in compelling detail are eleven explorers, scientists, mystics, and just plain adventures - including two indomitable women - who journeyed through this forbidding region between 1890 and 1935 and brought back its secrets, its treasures, its knowledge, and, as vividly presented in The Alluring Target, fascinating accounts of their travels.

The Alluring Target: In Search of the Secrets of Central Asia

Travel

Asia

Trackless Sands Pr Inc

Once almost forgotten except in connection with the formulation of the historic "Open Door Policy" for China, William Woodville Rockhill's renown is experiencing a revival among members of a new generation interested in Tibetan culture. Rockhill was the first American to learn to read, write, and speak Tibetan fluently, and one of the first Westerners to be hosted by the Dalai Lama, conversing with the spiritual leader directly in his own language. Unlike the conventional image of a cloistered scholar. Rockhill, like many fellow Tibetologists, was happiest when on a difficult and dangerous pilgrimage.

William Woodville Rockhill...

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Orchid Press

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