{"product_id":"an-unfrequented-highway-through-sikkim-and-tibet-to-chumolaori-9788121241793","title":"An Unfrequented Highway Through Sikkim and Tibet To Chumolaori","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): John Easton\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Gyan Publishing House\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Gyan Publishing House\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book is an account of travelogue which undertaken around the 1920. The journey through the plains of Bengal has been hot, dirty and tedious: the scenery monotonous: unbroken plains of cultivated land and paddy fields, with an occasional mud village or group of arms: colourless save when the sun rises or sets: telling no tale except at Paksey, where the Ganges sweeps on its turbulent course. Darjeeling and British Bhutan are districts of Bengal. They lie side by side and together comprise a strip of territory fifty miles broad and twenty miles deep snatched from the State of Sikkim to afford a haven for wearied officials and a prosperous corner for the tea-planting community. From Kalimpong the road climbs northeast through Sikkim for fifty miles to the Tibetan passes of the Donkhia range, where one crosses the frontier; thence it descends into the Chumbi valley, and continues north-eastwards a further fifty miles to the Tableland of Tibet. Easterns account is not a political or commercial one, but one that describes the daily delights and toils of a pleasure excursion into Sikkim and Tibet. Armed with two boxes of food, two valises, two cameras and two glare googles, he and his companion Dr. Bishop, launched themselves into a journey primarily to escape the hot and stuffy plains of Bengal. The photographs illustrating this book are his work, and are an earnest of his knowledge of the frontier.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gyan Publishing House","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46194829721751,"sku":"9788121241793","price":210.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9788121241793.webp?v=1769299151","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/an-unfrequented-highway-through-sikkim-and-tibet-to-chumolaori-9788121241793","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}