Tibet
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- 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
- Narratives of the Mission of George Bogle to Tibet, and of the Journey of Thomas Manning to Lhasa by Clements R Markham Geographical Department, India Office. 1876 Archive.org. At least one missing page was noted. 2nd version [microfilmed] Archive.org. The narrative of George Bogle is dated 1774, and Thomas Manning’s journey was in 1811-12.
- Account of Koonawur, in the Himalaya [1817-1818] by Captain Alexander Gerard 1841 Archive.org.
- Map of Koonawur, front of book. Koonawur was situated between the north of India and Chinese Tartary.
- 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 tte 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
- Diary of a Pedestrian in Cashmere and Thibet by Captain Knight , Forty-Eighth Regiment 1863 Archive.org
- Report on a visit to Sikhim and the Thibetan frontier in October, November, and December 1873 by J. Ware Edgar, Offg. Deputy Commissioner of Darjeeling. 1874 Hathi Trust Digital Library.
- The River of Golden Sand: being the Narrative of a Journey through China and Eastern Tibet to Burmah by Captain William Gill R. E. Volume I 1880, Volume II 1880 Condensed [memorial] edition 1883 Archive.org
- Journey to Lhasa and Central Tibet by Sarat Chandra Das of the Bengal Educational Service. 1902. Archive.org. A journey in 1881-1882. Sarat Chandra Das exploringtibet.wikischolars.columbia.edu
- 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 1889 edition, 1891 edition Archive.org. Includes Tibet.
- Diary of a Journey across Tibet by Captain Hamilton Bower 17th Bengal Cavalry 1894 Archive.org
- 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
- Among the Himalayas by Major L A Waddell, Indian Army Medical Corps. 1899 edition 2nd edition 1900 Archive.org
- Tibet The Mysterious by Col. Sir Thomas H Holdich 1906 Archive.org
- Adventure, sport and travel on the Tibetan steppes by N W Fergusson 1911 Archive.org
- Shelton of Tibet by Flora Beal Shelton 1923 Archive.org. Dr Albert Leroy Shelton, 1875-1922, was a medical missionary, for the Foreign Christian Missionary Society of Cincinnati, USA, until killed by bandits.
- "The amazing adventures of Sue in Tibet and her creator" by Tricia Kehoe 16 March 2016. BBC News. Dorris Shelton Still was the daughter of Dr Albert Shelton and his wife Flora, and spent her childhood in Tibet.
- Tibet A Chronicle Of Exploration by John Macgregor 1970. Pdf download, Digital Library of India.