No country in this world has exercised a more potent influence on the imagination of men or presented with such fascinating problems for solution to the explorer as Tibet region. This fascinating work based on the exploration of Tibet by illustrating the sequence of the investigation of that ‘great wilderness of stony and inhospitable altitudes which lie far beyond Lhasa’. After a briefly outlining the Tibet’s historical and geographical evolution Holdich records the exploration of Tibet from the times of the Mughal invasion of India upto 1903-4 during the British expedition led by Sir Francis Younghusband a British army officer and an explorer. About the Author Colonel Thomas Holdich (1843-1929) was an English geographer and the President of the Royal Geographical Society. He is best known as the Superintendent of Frontier Surveys in British India and an author of numerous books including The Gates of India.
