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396:"his many travels in the wild places of the world, his uncomplaining endurance of dangers and discomforts, his magical tales, lightly told, and his shrewd criticism of Kipling's own work"
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The opening of Tibet; an account of Lhasa and the country and people of central Tibet and of the progress of the mission sent there by the
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on 29 March 1869. He was the son of the Rev. Edward Henry Landon and his wife, Caroline. His first name was the surname of his mother, daughter of the Rev. and Hon.
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