author
Gabriel Bonvalot
1853–1933
A restless traveler and writer, he became known for bold journeys across Central Asia and Tibet at a time when those regions were still little known to many European readers. His books turned difficult expeditions into vivid travel narratives that helped shape late 19th-century ideas about Asia.
3 Audiobooks
L'Asie inconnue : à travers le Tibet
by Gabriel Bonvalot
En Asie centrale : De Moscou en Bactriane
by Gabriel Bonvalot
En Asie centrale : du Kohistan à la Caspienne
by Gabriel Bonvalot
About the author
Born in Épagne, France, in 1853, Gabriel Bonvalot was a French explorer best known for expeditions across Central Asia and Tibet. He traveled widely in Asia during the 1880s and became one of the better-known French travel writers of his era.
Bonvalot is especially associated with journeys described in works such as Through the Heart of Asia and Across Thibet. Records from the Library of Congress and Cambridge editions of his books show how widely his travel accounts circulated in English as well as French, helping bring his experiences to an international audience.
He died in 1933. Today he is remembered chiefly as an explorer-author whose writings captured both the ambition and the curiosity of 19th-century geographic travel.