VANISHED KINGDOMS: A WOMAN EXPLORER IN TIBET, CHINA AND MONGOLIA 1921-1925
Book ID/图书代码： 00500009B33045
English Summary/英文概要： Vanished Kingdoms is the story of a remarkable young woman named Janet Elliott Wulsin who, bucking both the traditions and expectations of her upper-class family, escaped the cloistered world of Edith Wharton’s New York to explore remote corners of Western China, Inner Mongolia, and northwestern Tibet. Wulsin’s story went largely untold until, after her death in 1963, her daughter, Mabel Cabot, found her mother’s private letters and diaries. Cabot spent the next four years conducting research in the Harvard University Library and the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology to unravel her mother’s fascinating story. Cabot shares her mother’s adventures in this magnificent illustrated book, which contains over 140 extraordinary photographs documenting the lost world of Imperial China.
Mabel H. Cabot has had a diversified and adventurous life of her own. Trained as a museum curator, she has worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and served on the boards of the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., and the Museum of American Folk Art in New York City. She was the President of the Public Relations firm, Rogers and Cowan, in Washington D.C. and served as the Social Secretary to the Reagan White House from 1980—1984. Cabot was the Director of Corporate Programming for The Ford Motor Company from 1989—1999. She currently serves on the Board of the American Friends of the British Museum, the International Center for Journalists, The American Repertory Theatre and the College of the Atlantic, and is presently on the staff of the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts and West Tremont, Maine, with her husband, Louis W. Cabot.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 一段东方的传奇探险 一本珍贵的古老相册
Janet Elliott Wulsin出生于美国上层社会，为了探寻世界另一端的神秘国度，她不顾家人和多方的反对，离开纽约只身前往中国西部、内蒙古以及西藏等偏远地区。直至1963年她逝世后，女儿Mabel Cabot才在其私人信函中，发掘出了这段鲜为人知的故事。之后的四年间，Cabot遍访哈佛图书馆等地，对母亲当年的历程展开了详尽的研究。消失的国度一书，拥有多达140余幅的珍贵照片，记述了Wulsin探险经历的同时，也将那个尘封许久的古老国度再次呈现到了世人的面前…(AW)
Awards/获奖情况：Part photographic catalogue and part historical travelogue, this book presents the life of Janet Elliott Wulsin (1894-1963), who went where very few women of her society had ever gone before. In 1923, she and her husband, Frederick, set out, under the auspices of the National Geographic Society, to explore China, Mongolia and Tibet with 28 camels, six horses, four Mongolian camel drivers and 10 Chinese "specimen collectors." Together, they collected 1,400 botanical and zoological specimens and documented Buddhist rituals. Cabot, director of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology of Ethnology at Harvard, showcases 144 illustrations (34 in color) and provides a wealth of details, down to the provisions the Wulsins carried on their travel through the Chinese desert: "marmalade from Fortnum and Mason, syrup, hardtack, dehydrated vegetables, malted milk, and even canned baked beans." She uses letters from Janet and Frederick to supplement her storytelling; one from Janet to her mother-in-law notes, "I feel as if we might be going to Mars-with just as much probability of return."---From Publishers Weekly
About the Author/作者介绍： Mabel H. Cabot has written for The Washington Post, The Washington Star, and Smithsonian.
本书作者 Mabel H. Cabot，其个人生涯也可谓多姿多彩。早年在纽约大都会艺术博物馆工作，并先后于华盛顿科伦艺术馆、菲利普斯陈列馆、纽约美国民俗博物馆等董事会任职；同时她还是华盛顿罗杰科恩公关公司主席，并于1980至1984年间担任里根政府社交秘书，1989至1999年间担任福特公司企划总监。她现在于国际记者中心、美国戏目剧院 、大西洋学院及埃塞克斯博物馆等多处任职
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