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Among the Himalayas (Paperback)
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Among the Himalayas (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Travel and Exploration in Asia
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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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