Buch, Englisch, 525 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 740 g
Reihe: Cambridge Library Collection - Travel and Exploration in Asia
Buch, Englisch, 525 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 740 g
Reihe: Cambridge Library Collection - Travel and Exploration in Asia
ISBN: 978-1-108-04600-8
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
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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Preface; 1. Appointment to a mission about to proceed to Tibet; 2. Leave Simla; 3. Sildang River; 4. Hangarang ridge separates Kunawar from Piti; 5. Leave valley of Piti River; 6. Descend Hanle River; 7. Departure from Le; 8. Leave Iskardo in the direction of Kashmir; 9. Leave Iskardo for Rondu; 10. Environs of Kashmir; 11. Leave Jamu to return to Tibet; 12. Marked change in the vegetation; 13. Rope bridge across Zanskar River; 14. Start for Karakoram; 15. General description of Tibet; Index.
