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Issue Details: First known date: 1910... 1910 Through the Heart of Tibet
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Hobart Mercury of 30 November 1909 states that the work 'is written in Alexander Macdonald's usually vigorous style, and deals with a secret expedition to the very heart of Tibet and the sacred city of Lhasa, and into which is woven the adventures of a boy hero, which affords splendid reading for youths' ('Publications Received' 7).

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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Blackie ,       ca. 1910 .
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      Link: 8510781Full text document AustLit Full Text
      Extent: 384 p., [6] leaves of platesp.
      Description: illus.
      Note/s:
      • Although the title page of this work has a stated publication date of 1910, it is reviewed in a November 1909 issue of the Hobart Mercury. Also, the attached fulltext version bears an inscription dated Christmas 1909.
      • Digitised by AustLit, 2009, from the collection of Monash University Library.
      • Digitised item bears inscription: 'To "Squibbs" Xmas 1909. from B. White'.
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Works about this Work

Christmas Books 1909 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 18 December no. 22442 1909; (p. 6)
— Review of Saturday's Children : A Story of To-day Winifred James , 1910 single work children's fiction ; The Rival Treasure Hunters : A Tale of the Debatable Frontier of British Guiana Robert M. MacDonald , 1909 single work children's fiction ; The Hidden Nugget : A Story of the Australian Goldfields Alexander Macdonald , 1909 single work children's fiction ; Through the Heart of Tibet Alexander Macdonald , 1910 single work children's fiction
Christmas Books 1909 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 18 December no. 22442 1909; (p. 6)
— Review of Saturday's Children : A Story of To-day Winifred James , 1910 single work children's fiction ; The Rival Treasure Hunters : A Tale of the Debatable Frontier of British Guiana Robert M. MacDonald , 1909 single work children's fiction ; The Hidden Nugget : A Story of the Australian Goldfields Alexander Macdonald , 1909 single work children's fiction ; Through the Heart of Tibet Alexander Macdonald , 1910 single work children's fiction
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    Tibet,
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    East Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
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