Western Himalaya and Tibet : A Narrative of a Journey through the Mountains of Northern India, during the Years 1847–8

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In 1847, the intrepid explorer and naturalist Thomas Thomson (1817–78) went on a perilous eighteen-month journey to define the boundary between Kashmir and Chinese Tibet. His valuable contribution to the geography, geology and botany of the western Himalayas was published in 1852.