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Robert Byron. First Russia, Then Tibet
First Russia, Then Tibet
Table of Contents
THE TRAVELLER’S CONFESSION
PART I. RUSSIA
I. THE NEW JERUSALEM
II. CREED AND OBSERVANCE
III. THE RUSSIAN AESTHETIC
IV. MOSCOW
V. LENINGRAD
VI. VELIKI NOVGOROD
VII. EARLY RUSSIAN PAINTING
VIII. YAROSLAVL AND SERGIEVO
IX. THE UKRAINE
PART II. TIBET
I. THE AIR MAIL
II. THE DESERT LANDS
III. ANGLO-HIMALAYA
IV. INTO TIBET
V. THE PLAINS
VI. THE PLEASURES OF GYANTSE
VII. LUNCHING OUT
VIII. WINTER COMES EARLY
IX. A TIBETAN PILGRIMAGE
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Robert Byron
Published by Good Press, 2021
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M.: Of course he could have. Our laboratories here are better equipped than any in Europe.
R.B.: I’m talking about thought, not experiment—something that goes on in one person at a time. If you take all the great periods of human invention, scientific or otherwise, you’ll find that people were free to think as they wished. There was an atmosphere of disinterested inquiry. The nineteenth century in England, for example—it produced Marx’s Capital among other things, and he says as much in the preface.[1] Or the Renascence ...
