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.
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