Moderated by Roberto Bombarda.
A valuable publication for all lovers and scholars of a now-lost Tibet, accompanied by a remarkable photographic apparatus, this diary fills an editorial gap and does justice to the “foundations” of the famous account of the Italian expedition to Western Tibet published by the Royal Academy of Italy in 1934, authored by Ghersi himself and his mission chief, the great oriental scholar Giuseppe Tucci. This new editorial format provides a comparative reading of the unpublished diary of Captain Ghersi alongside the official text by scholar Tucci, commented on by anthropologist David Bellatalla, and offers the reader a direct testimony of great documentary value. As Oscar Nalesini, head of the IsIAO Archive (Italian Institute for Africa and the East), recalls in the preface: “Written to disseminate the results of an expedition conducted for months across some of the most difficult terrains, with the goal of discovering and documenting the remnants of a civilization, that of Tibet, which was then virtually unknown to Western scholars, this book remains an essential text for anyone wishing to understand Tucci's work.”
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