Western Himalaya and Tibet : A Narrative of a Journey through the Mountains of Northern India, during the Years 1847-8 Paperback / softback
by Thomas Thomson
Part of the Cambridge Library Collection - Travel and Exploration in Asia series
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Explorer and naturalist Thomas Thomson (1817–78) led an intrepid life.
He started his career as an assistant surgeon with the East India Company and soon became a curator of the Asiatic Society's museum in Bengal.
He was sent to Afghanistan in 1840 during the First Anglo-Afghan War, and was captured but managed to escape as he was about to be sold as a slave.
Undaunted by this misfortune, he accepted a perilous mission to define the boundary between Kashmir and Chinese Tibet in 1847.
During his eighteen-month journey, Thomson explored the Kashmir territories and went as far north as the barren Karakoram Pass.
He collected valuable geographical and geological information as well as a wealth of botanical specimens.
He describes his findings in minute detail in this account, first published in 1852.
Thomson later became a Fellow of the Linnean Society, the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Society.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:530 pages, 2 Plates, color; 2 Maps
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:07/06/2012
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- ISBN:9781108046008
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:530 pages, 2 Plates, color; 2 Maps
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:07/06/2012
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- ISBN:9781108046008
