• ISBN13: 9788121242271
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: N/A
• Publisher: Gyan Publishing House
• Publisher Imprint: Gyan Publishing House
• Publication Date: January 1, 2020
• Pages: 224
• Original Price: INR 450.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 401 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): N/A

This easy reading book is a collection of short travels that the author made in the 1880’s. the book starts with his recollections when he visited the Himalayas for the first time, and proceeds to describe his travels to Kangra; from Kullu to Shimla; from Turkistan to India; the Karakoram mountains; the Mushtagh pass; through Kashmir; Ladakh; his meeting with the Kirghiz; search for the Saltoro pass; Hunza, etc. The book is replete with personal experiences (some times religious experiences too), with the author describing all his adventures. There are notices on geography, fauna, and towns that he visited. The question of Russian occupation of various parts in the Karakorum and Pamir mountains is also dealt with. There is a map of his travels in this book, which is a reprint of the 1924 edition.

Lieutenant Colonel Sir Francis Edward Younghusband, KCSI KCIE (1863 – 1942) was a British Army officer, explorer, and spiritual writer. He is remembered for his travels in the Far East and Central Asia; especially the 1904 British expedition to Tibet, led by himself, and for his writings on Asia and foreign policy. He held positions including British commissioner to Tibet and President of the Royal Geographical Society.In 1903, Curzon appointed Younghusband head of the Tibet Frontier Commission with John Claude White, political officer of Sikkim, and E. C. Wilton as deputy commissioners. He subsequently led the 1903-04 British expedition to Tibet, whose putative aim was to settle disputes over the Sikkim-Tibet border, but by exceeding instructions from London, the expedition controversially became a de facto invasion of Tibet.