Pioneer in Tibet: The Life and Perils of Dr. Albert Shelton

Title: Pioneer in Tibet: The Life and Perils of Dr. Albert Shelton Author: Douglas A Wissing ISBN: 9781403963284 Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Published: 2004 Binding: Hardcover Language: English Condition: Used: Very Good B 1631989 Publisher Description: Dr. Albert Shelton was a medical missionary who spent nearly twenty years in the Tibetan borderlands at the start of the last century. Raising his family in a land of banditry and civil war, caught between a weak Chinese government and the British Raj, Shelton proved to be a resourceful frontiersman. During the course of his work in Tibet, he was praised by the Western press as a family man, revered doctor, respected diplomat and fearless adventurer. Driven by his goal of setting up a medical mission within Lhasa, the seat of the Dalai Lama and a city off limits to Westerners for hundreds of years, Shelton acted as a valued go between