Gabriel Bonvalot

Pierre Gabriel Édouard Bonvalot ( born July 13, 1853 in Épagne Department in Aube, † December 10, 1933 in Paris) was a French diplomat and writer.

Life

In the years 1880-1882 he traveled to Central Asia, explored in Kohistan and returned to France via Bukhara, the Caspian Sea and the Caucasus back.

In 1886 he crossed for the first time the Pamirs of Ferghana in Turkestan Tschitral in India.

He crossed Tibet from Lop Nor to Nam Co ( 1889), traveled through Asia from Siberia to Tonkin ( 1889-90 ) and conducted an official mission to Entotto in Ethiopia.

The French landscape painter Albert Pepin (1849-1917) accompanied Bonvalot on his research trip through Central Asia.

Works

• De Moscou en Bactriane (1884 )
• You Caucase aux Indes; a travers Le Pamir (1889 )
• De Paris au Tonkin à travers Tibet inconnu (1892 )
• L ' Asie inconnue (1896 )
• Marco Polo ( 1925)