The Pundits : British Exploration of Tibet and Central Asia /

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On a September day in 1863, Abdul Hamid entered the Central Asian city of Yarkand. Disguised as a merchant, Hamid was actually an employee of the Survey of India, carrying concealed instruments to enable him to map the geography of the area. Hamid did not live to provide a first-hand count of his tr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Waller, Derek J.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, 2004.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Travel.
HISTORY > Europe > Great Britain.
HISTORY > Asia > General.
HISTORY > Asia > Central Asia.
China > Tibet Autonomous Region.
Central Asia.
Region autonome du Tibet (Chine) > Descriptions et voyages.
Asie centrale > Descriptions et voyages.
Tibet Autonomous Region (China) > Description and travel.
Asia, Central > Description and travel.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:On a September day in 1863, Abdul Hamid entered the Central Asian city of Yarkand. Disguised as a merchant, Hamid was actually an employee of the Survey of India, carrying concealed instruments to enable him to map the geography of the area. Hamid did not live to provide a first-hand count of his travels. Nevertheless, he was the advance guard of an elite group of Indian trans-Himalayan explorers -- recruited, trained, and directed by the officers of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India -- who were to traverse much of Tibet and Central Asia during the next thirty years. Derek Waller presen.
Physical Description:1 online resource (348 pages).
ISBN:9780813149042

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