Journal of a Tour Through Spiti to the Frontier of Chinese Thibet

Description

Product Description

This is a reformatted and revised edition of the 1864 original “Journal of a Tour Through Spiti to the Frontier of Chinese Thibet” by Philip Henry Egerton. In this revision we have brought some additional material and made minor corrections to the text. We have also arranged a table of contents and a bibliography which were not there in the original work. Elseways, the content in its entirety remains the same.

Book Description

The journal contains valuable ethnological and geological information of Spiti; including a brief history of the country and a report on the trade between India and Tibet. It is also the earliest photographic documentation of Kulu, Lahoul and Spiti, and contains 37 photographs of landscape and people of the region, including that of Kangra, all taken by Egerton himself during his tour (June-September 1863).

About the Author

Philip Henry Egerton was the Deputy-Commissioner of Kangra District (now in Himachal Pradesh) of the Punjab.