In the Forbidden Land, an Account of a Journey Into Tibet, Capture By the Tibetan Lamas and Soldiers, Imprisonment, Torture and Ultimate Release (Classic Reprint)

Hastily written, and when the author was in broken health from wounds and tortures endured in the Forbidden Land, this book was not intended as a literary effort, but merely as an unvarnished record of a journey of exploration taken in Tibet in the year 1897. The following were the geographical results of the expedition: First. The discovery of the two principal sources of the Brahmaputra River, never before visited by white man. v Second. Fixing the position of the highest peaks of what has lately been described as the new Trans Himalaya range. The first description of the geographical importance, or non-importance, of this socalled new range. Third. The solution of the geographical controversy regarding a supposed connecting stream between the lakes Mansarowar and Rakastal in Tibet. The authors contention that no visible communication exists has since been proved correct by later explorers. In the orthogra)hy of geographical names the author has adopted the way of spelling which seemed most sensible, viz.: to give native names their true sound as they are locally pronounced.
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