{"product_id":"9781108046008","title":"Western Himalaya and Tibet : A Narrative of a Journey through the Mountains of Northern India, during the Years 1847-8 (Cambridge Library Collection - Travel and Exploration in Asia)","description":"\u003cp\u003eExplorer and naturalist Thomas Thomson (1817-78) led an intrepid life. He started his career as an assistant surgeon with the East India Company and soon became a curator of the Asiatic Society's museum in Bengal. He was sent to Afghanistan in 1840 during the First Anglo-Afghan War, and was captured but managed to escape as he was about to be sold as a slave. Undaunted by this misfortune, he accepted a perilous mission to define the boundary between Kashmir and Chinese Tibet in 1847. During his eighteen-month journey, Thomson explored the Kashmir territories and went as far north as the barren Karakoram Pass. He collected valuable geographical and geological information as well as a wealth of botanical specimens. He describes his findings in minute detail in this account, first published in 1852. Thomson later became a Fellow of the Linnean Society, the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Society.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49742379909368,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":129.25,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/8208\/6904\/files\/9781108046008-1.jpg?v=1783642357","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.au\/products\/9781108046008","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}