Kendall, an American history professor, crossed from Tonking through Yunnan and Sichuan to the Tibetan marches with a cook and a muleteer and no other company: the caravan roads, the inns, the Lolo and Tibetan borderlands, and the matter-of-fact competence of a woman doing what nobody expected her to attempt.
A remarkable solo journey across south-west China, in 1911. Download the free EPUB.