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Electronic Book

Author

Pomplun, Trent.

Title Jesuit on the roof of the world [electronic resource] : Ippolito Desideri's mission to eighteenth-century Tibet / Trent Pomplun.

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Oxford [U.K.] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.

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Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe ACLS Humanities E-Book	Electronic Book	---	Available

Description	xvi, 302 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Series	ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-294) and index.
Contents	Jesuit phantasia -- From Rome to Lhasa -- Tibetan religion in theological perspective -- The Zünghar invasion -- The fight with the friars -- Compositio loci: Tibet.
Reproduction	Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2014. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet.
Subject	Desideri, Ippolito, 1684-1733.
	Jesuits -- Italy -- Biography.
	Missionaries -- China -- Tibet -- Biography.
	Missionaries -- Italy -- Biography.
	Missions -- China -- Tibet.
	Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Church history.
Added Author	American Council of Learned Societies.
In:	ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: https://www.humanitiesebook.org/
Other Form:	Original 9780195377866 (DLC) 2009009570
Standard No.	2027/heb31160 hdl