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Western Tibet and the British borderland. The sacred country of Hindus and Buddhists. With an account of the government, religion and customs of its peoples ... With a chapter by T.G. Longstaff ... describing an attempt to climb Gurla Mandhata. With illustrations and maps.

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First edition. ‘The author’s account of the exploration in Garhwal and Ladakh accompanied with T.G. Longstaff in 1905, with a chapter by Longstaff, describing an attempt to climb Gulra Mandhata. The most serious book on that region, including Mt. Kailas and its neighbourings’ (Yakushi).

‘Having had the good fortune to be posted officially in the Almora district for some time past, I have been often thrown in close contact with the interesting people who live in these grand mountains, and have been able to study some of their ways, and to get an intimate knowledge of the life and problems of the frontier. This information has now been supplemented by a trip in Western Tibet ... This book has been written with the hope that the information acquired during past years may prove of interest and use to others who may be brought into contact with this part of the world, or whose sympathies have been drawn towards those mysterious marvels of the Forbidden Land which have attracted the minds of so many’ (pp. 7-8).

Marshall 2069; Neate S53; Yakushi S203.

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