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Francis Younghusband

The Heart Of A Continent: A Narrative Of Travels In Manchuria, Across The Gobi Desert, Through The Himalayas, The Pamirs, And Hunza 1884-1894

Gyan Publishing House, 2020

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Year of publication
2020
ISBN
1111000287769
Author
Francis Younghusband
Pages
367
Publishers
Gyan Publishing House
Keyword
History
Binding description
Paperback
Languages
English
Binding
Softcover
Print on demand
Yes

Description

About the Book:-A narrative of travels in Manchuria, across the Gobi desert, through the Himalayas, the Pamirs and Hunza (1884-1894). The author was the last of the Great Gamers, and this book is a classic account of a journey, with clandestine motives, from Peking to Srinagar around the year 1890. There are notices of other short journeys that he took, making the book span between the years 1884 to 1894. The main narrative of the book takes the reader from Peking to Manchuria, across the Gobi desert through Sinkiang, and then across the Himalaya mountains to Srinagar, in Kashmir. There is a lot of geographical information in this book, along with personal impression of the local politics of the regions that he travelled through. The book ends with a chapter on missionary activity in China. This book is a reprint of the 1904 edition, and has 9 illustrations and 1 map.
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