Diary Of A Journey Across Tibet - PB

'The travelogue of a great gamer journey across Tibet from Leh in Ladakh to Shangai in china. The journey was under taken during the years of 1891-1892. Being a long journey through diverse terrain and cultures, this book is rich in description. As with narratives of this kind, the author faithfully recounts all that he saw and experienced. The people, their customs and habits, their culture and history, the topography and terrain, daily temperature readings, all are packed into this racy and interesting book.The book is a reprint of the 1894 edition. Major-General Sir Hamilton St Clair Bower KCB DL was a British Indian Army officer who wrote about his travels through Chinese Turkestan and Tibet. Originally commissioned into the Duke of Edinburgh's Own Artillery Militia, he was appointed a Second Lieutenant in the Devonshire Regiment 23rd October 1880. He was appointed to the Indian Staff Corps 2 February 1884 and posted to the 17th Cavalry 15th September 1885. In 1889-1890 Lieutenant Hamilton Bower travelled through Chinese Turkestan, where in the city of Kucha he purchased a Sanskrit-language manuscript written in the Brahmi alphabet. The medical manuscript, which later became known as the Bower Manuscript, sent a shock-wave through the world of Indian scholarship, especially Indology, pointing to the existence of a forgotten Buddhist civilization in Chinese Turkestan. The Title 'Diary Of A Journey Across Tibet written/authored/edited by Hamilton Bower', published in the year 2020.