Trans-Himalaya: Discoveries and Adventurers in Tibet

Trans-Himalaya: Discoveries and Adventurers in Tibet
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This book is an account of the iconic expedition through Tibet. It was one of the first expeditions of the kind, and it had a tremendous role in the development of Tibetan geographics. The explorer and author, Hedin, was the first European to reach the sacred and legendary Mount Kailash. According to the Buddhist tradition, this mountain is the midpoint of the Earth. He started the expedition in 1906 from the Central Persian desert basins and the western Tibetan highlands. Then, he crossed the Transhimalaya region and discovered new territories. Later, the area of his route was called the Hedin Range. Then, he visited the 9th Pachen Lama in Shigatse. After, he reached the Indus and Brahmaputra rivers' sources and descended the Indus returning home. One of the most significant achievements of this journey is mapping the previously unknown areas of Tibetan highlands. Yet, Hedin wasn't just a prominent explorer but a great storyteller too. From the first pages of the captivating memoir, a reader's attention is entirely absorbed by the vivid description of the exotic places and adventures. Those days, the Indian and Tibetan region was a total mystery for a European. Now, a century on, we know just a little more. So, it is exciting to read about the cultures that are now distant to us geographically and historically. Another bonus you get from this book is a feeling of pioneering. What does a person feel, knowing that they are the first European in Tibet? How is it leaving your home for a long journey full of dangers? You can read about all these things in this beautiful realistic, and captivating memoir.

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Sven Hedin. Trans-Himalaya: Discoveries and Adventurers in Tibet

Trans-Himalaya: Discoveries and Adventurers in Tibet

Table of Contents

Volume 1

PREFACE

CHAPTER I. SIMLA

CHAPTER II. DEPARTURE FROM SRINAGAR

CHAPTER III. THE ROAD TO LEH

CHAPTER IV. THE LAST PREPARATIONS

CHAPTER V. THE START FOR TIBET

CHAPTER VI. TO THE EDGE OF THE TIBETAN TABLELAND

CHAPTER VII. OVER THE CREST OF THE KARAKORUM

CHAPTER VIII. TO LAKE LIGHTEN

CHAPTER IX. ON THE LAKE IN A STORM

CHAPTER X. DEATH IN THE JAWS OF WOLVES—OR SHIPWRECK

CHAPTER XI. GREAT LOSSES

CHAPTER XII. IN UNKNOWN COUNTRY

CHAPTER XIII. UNFORTUNATE DAYS

CHAPTER XIV. IN THE LAND OF THE WILD YAK

CHAPTER XV. THE FIRST NOMADS

CHAPTER XVI. OUR FORTUNES ON THE WAY TO THE BOGTSANG-TSANGPO

CHAPTER XVII. CHRISTMAS IN THE WILDS

CHAPTER XVIII. TEN DAYS ON THE ICE OF NGANGTSE-TSO

CHAPTER XIX. DRIVEN BACK

CHAPTER XX. ONWARDS THROUGH THE FORBIDDEN LAND

CHAPTER XXI. OVER THE TRANS-HIMALAYA

CHAPTER XXII. TO THE BANK OF THE BRAHMAPUTRA

CHAPTER XXIII. DOWN THE TSANGPO BY BOAT—ENTRY INTO SHIGATSE

CHAPTER XXIV. THE NEW YEAR FESTIVAL

CHAPTER XXV. THE TASHI LAMA

CHAPTER XXVI. THE GRAVES OF THE PONTIFFS

CHAPTER XXVII. POPULAR AMUSEMENTS OF THE TIBETANS

CHAPTER XXVIII. MONKS AND PILGRIMS

CHAPTER XXIX. WALKS IN TASHI-LUNPO—THE DISPOSAL OF THE DEAD

CHAPTER XXX. OUR LIFE IN SHIGATSE

CHAPTER XXXI. POLITICAL COMPLICATIONS

CHAPTER XXXII. TARTING-GOMPA AND TASHI-GEMBE

CHAPTER XXXIII. THE RAGA-TSANGPO AND THE MY-CHU

CHAPTER XXXIV. TO LINGA-GOMPA

Volume 2

CHAPTER XXXV. IMMURED MONKS

CHAPTER XXXVI. OVER THE CHANG-LA-POD-LA

CHAPTER XXXVII. TARGO-GANGRI AND THE SHURU-TSO

CHAPTER XXXVIII. TO THE OUTLET OF THE CHAKTAK-TSANGPO IN THE BRAHMAPUTRA

CHAPTER XXXIX. MUHAMED ISA’S DEATH

CHAPTER XL. ALONG BYWAYS TO TRADUM

CHAPTER XLI. A PEEP INTO NEPAL

CHAPTER XLII. IN SEARCH OF THE SOURCE OF THE BRAHMAPUTRA

CHAPTER XLIII. THE SOURCE OF THE SACRED RIVER—A DEPARTURE

CHAPTER XLIV. A NIGHT ON MANASAROWAR

CHAPTER XLV. MORE LAKE VOYAGES

CHAPTER XLVI. A STORMY VOYAGE OVER THE HOLY LAKE

CHAPTER XLVII. ON THE ROOF OF THE GOSSUL MONASTERY

CHAPTER XLVIII. OUR LAST DAYS ON TSO-MAVANG

CHAPTER XLIX. ADVENTURES ON LANGAK-TSO

CHAPTER L. THE SOURCE OF THE SUTLEJ

CHAPTER LI. A PILGRIMAGE ROUND KANG-RINPOCHE

CHAPTER LII. OM MANI PADME HUM

CHAPTER LIII. THE DISCOVERY OF THE SOURCE OF THE INDUS

CHAPTER LIV. A RESOLUTION

CHAPTER LV. A NEW CHAPTER

CHAPTER LVI. UP TO THE HEIGHTS OF DAPSANG

CHAPTER LVII. ON THE ROOF OF THE WORLD

CHAPTER LVIII. FORTY DEGREES BELOW ZERO

CHAPTER LIX. IN THE SNOW

CHAPTER LX. DEATH OF THE LAST VETERAN

CHAPTER LXI. THIRTY DAYS OF STORM

CHAPTER LXII. ADVENTURES OF OURSELVES AND PUPPY IN NAGRONG

CHAPTER LXIII. THROUGH THE HIGHLANDS OF BONGBA

CHAPTER LXIV. TSONGPUN TASHI

CHAPTER LXV. BUPTSANG-TSANGPO, ONE OF THE LARGEST RIVERS OF THE HEART OF TIBET

CHAPTER LXVI. IN THE ROBBERS’ PARADISE

CHAPTER LXVII. APRIL 24

CHAPTER LXVIII. HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR OF SAKA

CHAPTER LXIX. KAMBA TSENAM, FATHER OF THE ROBBERS

CHAPTER LXX. THE SEVENTH CROSSING OF THE TRANS-HIMALAYA—TO THE HEAVENLY LAKE OF THE THRONE MOUNTAIN

CHAPTER LXXI. ANOTHER JOURNEY ACROSS THE WHITE PATCH

CHAPTER LXXII. THE LAST DAYS IN UNKNOWN COUNTRY

CHAPTER LXXIII. THE TRANS-HIMALAYA

CHAPTER LXXIV. SIMLA

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After my first visit to the Foreign Office, Younghusband (Illustration 2) conducted me to the Viceregal Palace, to enter my name in the visiting list of Lord and Lady Minto. Younghusband is a gallant man, a type of the noblest that a people can produce. He was more annoyed than myself at the refusal of the Government; but he had in this connection a far more bitter experience—his expedition to Lhasa, which ought to have thrown open Tibet to scientific exploration, had been in vain. He took me on the way to Lord Minto’s private secretary, Colonel J. R. Dunlop Smith (Illustration 3), in whom I found a friend for life. He is one of the finest, noblest, most generous, and learned men that I have ever met. He is well educated in many subjects, and has a thorough knowledge of India, for he has lived there four-and-twenty years. When we see such men in the most responsible posts, we can well conceive that the ruling race will weather many a violent storm, should they arise, among the three hundred millions of India.

My life at this time abounded in contrasts. How little did my sojourn at Simla resemble the years of solitude and silence that awaited me beyond the mountains veiled in dark masses of cloud! I cannot resist recalling some reminiscences of these extraordinarily delightful days.

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