Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Beyond the Himalayas: A Story of Travel and Adventure in the Wilds of Thibet
Tion for the imagination of young people, if, as formerly, they take delight in wandering among strange and wild scenes, and in encountering manifold obstacles and dan gers. Many have sought of late years to climb over the division-wall between the two crowded Eastern worlds of India and China, - the trader, to find a new market for his wares; the explorer, in search of a whole nest of Chinese puzzles regarding the courses of giant rivers and mountain chains; and the missionary, in pursuit of his self-denying labours. Only at one point, however, and by a roundabout way, has the journey been accomplished. This is not wonderful, when we re?ect that the traveller. In these countries must run the gauntlet of savage mountain tribes, jealous.
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