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:[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_HZxDAAAAYAAJ ''Indian Pandits in the Land of Snow''] by  Sarat Chandra Das  1893 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_HZxDAAAAYAAJ ''Indian Pandits in the Land of Snow''] by  Sarat Chandra Das  1893 Archive.org
*''Hindu-Koh: wanderings and wild sport on and beyond the Himalayas'' by Major General Donald Macintyre, VC, late Prince of Wales Own  Goorkhas [https://archive.org/details/hindukohwanderin00macirich 1889 edition], [https://archive.org/details/hindukohwanderin00maciuoft 1891 edition] Archive.org. Includes Tibet.
*''Hindu-Koh: wanderings and wild sport on and beyond the Himalayas'' by Major General Donald Macintyre, VC, late Prince of Wales Own  Goorkhas [https://archive.org/details/hindukohwanderin00macirich 1889 edition], [https://archive.org/details/hindukohwanderin00maciuoft 1891 edition] Archive.org. Includes Tibet.
*[https://archive.org/details/wherethreeempire00knig_0  ''Where three empires meet : a narrative of recent travel in Kashmir, Western Tibet, Gilgit, and the adjoining countries''] by E F Knight. New Edition 1894 (first published March 1893) Archive.org.
**With a [https://archive.org/stream/wherethreeempire00knig_0#page/n21/mode/1up Map]
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023218278  ''Diary of a Journey across Tibet''] by Captain Hamilton Bower 17th Bengal Cavalry 1894 Archive.org. With a [https://archive.org/stream/cu31924023218278#page/n18/mode/1up Map of Tibet]. The author was accompanied by Dr W G Thorold, Indian Medical Service.
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023218278  ''Diary of a Journey across Tibet''] by Captain Hamilton Bower 17th Bengal Cavalry 1894 Archive.org. With a [https://archive.org/stream/cu31924023218278#page/n18/mode/1up Map of Tibet]. The author was accompanied by Dr W G Thorold, Indian Medical Service.
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023203288 ''The Buddhism of Tibet : or, Lamaism, with its mystic cults, symbolism and mythology, and in its relation to Indian Buddhism''] by L Austine Waddell, Surgeon-Major HM Bengal Army 1895 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023203288 ''The Buddhism of Tibet : or, Lamaism, with its mystic cults, symbolism and mythology, and in its relation to Indian Buddhism''] by L Austine Waddell, Surgeon-Major HM Bengal Army 1895 Archive.org

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Tibet Expedition

External links

  • Their Footprints Remain: Biomedical Beginnings across the Indo-Tibetan Frontier (pdf file) by Alex McKay International Institute for Asian Studies 2007 Contents page 6(of the pdf) Notes page 250 Bibliography page 286 Index page 304, part of Digital Academic Repository van de Universiteit van Amsterdam
    • page 43, has a section in the introduction called The Indian Medical Service and the Subordinate Medical Service.
    • Chapter 1 ( page 56) is called Missionary Medicine and the Rise of Kalimpong
  • "Henry George "Hank" Baker: An Obituary: 23rd June 1918 – 15th January 2006" by Roger Croston The Tibet Journal Vol. 30/31, No. 4/1, Contributions to the study of Tibetan medicine (Winter 2005 & Spring 2006), pp. 193-196. jstor.org. Register and read online for free, see Miscellaneous tips. Henry Baker was a soldier in the Royal Corps of Signals who came to India in December 1938. In 1941 he was posted to run the radio station at the British Mission in Lhasa and was required to trek across the Himalayas to get to Lhasa. After seven months in Lhasa he was transferred to Sikkim where he remained until November 1945. He was was one of the last European eyewitnesses of the old Tibet.

Historical books online

Narrative of a journey from Caunpoor to the Boorendo pass, in the Himalaya Mountains viâ Gwalior, Agra, Delhi, and Sirhind; by Major Sir William Lloyd. And Captain Alexander Gerard's account of an attempt to penetrate by Bekhur to Garoo, and the Lake Manasarowara: with a letter from the late J.G. Gerard, esq. detailing a visit to the Shatool and Boorendo passes, for the purpose of determining the line of perpetual snow on the southern face of the Himalaya. Ed. by George Lloyd, published 1840. Volume I [1821-1822] Google Books. Volume II Captain Alexander Gerard’s Narrative 1821 Archive.org. Article about the book, page 421 The Monthly Review, From January To April Inclusive. 1840 Google Books.
  • Letters from India : describing a journey in the British dominions of India, Tibet, Lahore, and Cashmere, during the years 1828, 1829, 1830, 1831, undertaken by order of the French government by Victor Jacquemont, Museum of Natural History, Paris. Volume I, Volume II Archive.org
  • "Tibet" page 254 Introduction to the Geography and History of India, and of the Countries Adjacent by Alfred Radford Symonds . Printed for ‪Bishop Corrie's Grammar School, American Miission Press, Madras 1845‬ Google Books.
  • Western Himalaya and Tibet : a narrative of a journey through the mountains of northern India, during the years 1847-8 by Thomas Thomson, Assistant Surgeon Bengal Army 1852 Archive.org
  • The Adventures of a Lady in Tartary, Thibet, China, and Kashmir. ... With an account of the Journey from the Punjab to Bombay overland. ... Also an account of the Mahableshwur and Neilgherry Mountains, etc. by Mrs Hervey 1853. The Himalayan part of the journey took place March, 1850 to October, 1851. In three volumes:
Volume I, Volume II, Volume III Google Books
Volume I, Volume II, Volume III British Library Digital Collection. Images can be rotated.
Some sources give her names as Eleanor Louisa, Mrs Thomas Kibble. However, another source gives her as Julia Harvey, born 1825, the daughter of William Morton an engineer and his wife Juliana. [1] There was a marriage in Cawnpore 10 September 1845 of Julian Susan Morton , age 20, to Edward Harvey, Captain 10th Light Cavalry. He appears to be still alive in the late 1850s, so if this identification was correct, she did not undertake the journey due to widowhood. Article about the book by Christina Stoltz exploringtibet.wikischolars.columbia.edu
Indian Pandits in the Land of Snow by Sarat Chandra Das 1893 Archive.org
Among the Himalayas by Major L A Waddell, Indian Army Medical Corps. 1899 edition 2nd edition 1900 Archive.org

References

  1. Snippet Search result from ‪In Their Own Words: British Women Writers and India, 1740-1857‬ by Rosemary Raza 2006 Google Books