Pioneer in Tibet: The Life and Perils of Dr. Albert Shelton Ruth Sonam made by people

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Pioneer in Tibet: The Life and Perils of Dr. Albert Shelton Ruth Sonam made by peopleDr. Albert Shelton was a medical missionary and explorer who spent nearly twenty years in the Tibetan borderlands at the start of the last century. During the Great Game era, the Sheltons' sprawling station in Kham was the most remote and dangerous mission on earth. Raising his family in a land of banditry and civil war, caught between a weak Chinese government and the British Raj, Shelton proved to be a resourceful frontiersman. One of the West's