Vanished Kingdoms: A Woman
Explorer in Tibet, China, and
Mongolia 1921-1925 by Mabel Cabot
80 Years After...
In the early 1920s, the last great age of world explorers, a remarkable
young woman, Janet Elliott Wulsin, set out with her husband, Frederick
Wulsin, for the far reaches of China, Tibet, and Outer Mongolia to study
the people, flora and fauna of the region. Wulsins strenuous, eventful
exploration is detailed by a text enriched with excerpts from her candid
personal letters. The journey proved to be a test of the Wulsins endurance
and of their relationship. While in Asia, the Wulsins took many
extraordinary photographs, which form the heart of this richly-produced
publication. They documented tribespeople and sublime desert
landscapes, and, most remarkably, were allowed to photograph the interior
of several of the great Tibetan Buddhist lamaseries, including Choni,
Kumbum, and Labrang. Several dozen rare, hand-painted lantern slides
survived and are reproduced here in splendid color. The photographs from
the Wulsin Expedition, now in the collection of the Peabody Museum of
Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard Unversity, in collaboration with whom
this volume is being produced, are a testament to the great spirit and

success of a remarkable woman explorer. [the] pictures are thrilling and
romantic: Janet in various native costumes, the insides of temples never
before photographed . . . (sun-glasses, boots, rustic camps, also make this
a costume designers fantasy of a book). --Los Angeles Times Janet
Wulsin covered thousands of miles in remote China on foot, mule, camel
and raft, developing and cataloguing astonishingly beautiful, otherwordly
photographs . . . Wulsins diaries and letters are as illustrative and vivid as
the photos themselves. --Washington Post Edited and Essay by Mabel H.
Cabot. Preface by Rubie Watson. Hardcover, 11.25 x 9.75 in./192 pgs /
139 color.
Personal Review: Vanished Kingdoms: A Woman Explorer in
Tibet, China, and Mongolia 1921-1925 by Mabel Cabot
In the early 1920s, explorer Janet Wulsin and her husband Frederick
journeyed the far reaches of China and Tibet to study the people and the
lands of these remote regions - the photos from their expedition come to
life in this collection, along with several dozen hand-painted lantern slides
that appear in color. Vanished Kingdomsis a rich archive of treasures
which charts the findings and peoples of a bygone world. Any serious
collection of Asian treasures - both art and cultural - will find Vanished
Kingdoms an essential addition, unparalleled in scope and coverage.
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