Lhasa and her secrets

The author of the book is Lieutenant Colonel Lawrence Austin Waddell (1854-1938), a military surgeon, a professor of chemistry and pathology, a professor of tibetology, an assistant and a Sumerologist, says not about those secrets of the Tibetan sages, secret skills of mysterious lamps from hidden gimalays of ancient monasteries and other supernatural miracles, which we usually expect from such books.
Everything is much more interesting. You will find a frank and detailed description of one of the key episodes of a large game - the confrontations of the British and Russian empires for influence in South and Central Asia: a story about the British invasion of Tibet in 1903-1904. This is a frank and detailed story about the then events from one of the people who made a big policy from England, sincerely believing in the need to carry the “burden of a white man” around the world.
Reprint of the Russian translation by E.M. Chistyakova-Verg 1906