Name: Western Himalaya and Tibet Paperback (Cambridge Library Collection - Travel and Exploration in Asia) (en Inglés)
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Author: Thomas Thomson
ISBN: 9781108046008

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Libro Físico

Editorial

Cambridge University Press

Autor

Thomas Thomson

Año

2012

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

530

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN

1108046002

ISBN13

9781108046008

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Western Himalaya and Tibet Paperback (Cambridge Library Collection - Travel and Exploration in Asia) (en Inglés)

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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.