{"id":1789050,"date":"2020-07-25T14:46:21","date_gmt":"2020-07-25T18:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1789050"},"modified":"2020-07-25T14:46:21","modified_gmt":"2020-07-25T18:46:21","slug":"an-atlas-of-the-himalayas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/07\/an-atlas-of-the-himalayas\/","title":{"rendered":"An Atlas of the Himalayas"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"An<\/a>In An Atlas of the Himalayas by a 19th Century Tibetan Monk<\/em><\/a> (Brill<\/a>), Diana Lange explores the origins of six maps drawn by an anonymous Tibetan artist for a Scottish explorer in the mid-19th century, and how those maps ended up in the British Library. For more on Lange\u2019s research into this subject, see her guest post on the British Library\u2019s map blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Amazon<\/a> (Canada<\/a>, UK<\/a>) | Bookshop<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In An Atlas of the Himalayas by a 19th Century Tibetan Monk (Brill), Diana Lange explores the origins of six maps drawn by an anonymous Tibetan artist for a Scottish explorer in the mid-19th century,… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[144,30,1457,679],"class_list":["post-1789050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-antique-maps","tag-1800s","tag-books","tag-himalayas","tag-tibet","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1791600,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/08\/a-project-to-restore-a-19th-century-treatise-on-hand-drawn-mapping\/","url_meta":{"origin":1789050,"position":0},"title":"A Project to Restore a 19th-Century Treatise on Hand-drawn Mapping","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"18 August 2021","format":"link","excerpt":"\u201cI have a new mapping project on Kickstarter,\u201d writes our friend Alejandro Polanco. \u201cThis time it is about recovering some exciting hand-drawn maps by a forgotten craftsman from the 19th century.\u201d This is Alejandro\u2019s second project to digitally recover a 19th-century illustrated book; this time his target is an 1890\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Antique Maps"","block_context":{"text":"Antique Maps","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/antique-maps\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/alpoma-art-of-hand-drawn-maps.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/alpoma-art-of-hand-drawn-maps.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/alpoma-art-of-hand-drawn-maps.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/alpoma-art-of-hand-drawn-maps.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1812216,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2023\/01\/a-kickstarter-project-to-rediscover-19th-century-atlases\/","url_meta":{"origin":1789050,"position":1},"title":"A Kickstarter Project to Rediscover 19th-Century Atlases","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"30 January 2023","format":"link","excerpt":"Alejandro Polanco\u2019s latest Kickstarter, Geography 1880,\u00a0is in the vein of some of his previous ones: restoring and reprinting works from the late 19th century. 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