Among the Himalayas
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Part of Cambridge Library Collection - Travel and Exploration in Asia
- Author: L. Austine Waddell
- Date Published: March 2015
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108081634
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Laurence Austine Waddell (1854–1938) spent twenty-five years as a medical officer in the colonial Indian Medical Service. Fascinated by the landscapes and cultures of Darjeeling and Tibet, and inspired by reports from British spies surveying the remote Himalayan valleys, Waddell studied local languages, and spent his leisure time researching and writing on Tibetan topics. His books The Buddhism of Tibet (1895) and Lhasa and its Mysteries (1905) are also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection. This 1899 publication, illustrated with photographs and drawings, claims to describe 'the grandest part of the grandest mountains in the world', for the first time since Hooker (whose 1854 Himalayan Journals are also reissued), and anticipates today's trekking industry. Waddell's colourful account of jungles, snakes, glaciers, yaks, dizzying mountain ridges, rickety bamboo bridges, tribal peoples and unfamiliar food aims to 'bring home to the reader a whiff of the bracing breezes of the Himalayas'.
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- Date Published: March 2015
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108081634
- length: 474 pages
- dimensions: 215 x 140 x 29 mm
- weight: 0.55kg
- contains: 120 b/w illus. 6 maps 2 music examples
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
1. To Darjeeling and the preparations for our journey
2. The start and cross into native Sikhim
3. Up the Teesta valley to the king's capital
4. At the capital of Sikhim to the threshold of the snows
5. The alpine Lachoong valley to the Tibetan frontier and passes
6. The Lachen valley and eastern glaciers of Kanchen-Junga
7. Through British Bhotan to Darjeeling
8. To the eastern pass of the Jelep, and the scene of the late war
9. Along the Nepal frontier towards Everest
10. The southern peaks and glaciers of the Kanchen-Junga group
11. The Kang pass for the western glaciers of Kanchen-Junga and for Jannu
Appendix
Index.
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