The Heart Of A Continent: A Narrative Of Travels In Manchuria, Across The Gobi Desert, Through The Himalayas, The Pamirs, And Hunza 1884-1894

About the Book:-A narrative of travels in Manchuria, across the Gobi desert, through the Himalayas, the Pamirs and Hunza (1884-1894). The author was the last of the Great Gamers, and this book is a classic account of a journey, with clandestine motives, from Peking to Srinagar around the year 1890. There are notices of other short journeys that he took, making the book span between the years 1884 to 1894. The main narrative of the book takes the reader from Peking to Manchuria, across the Gobi desert through Sinkiang, and then across the Himalaya mountains to Srinagar, in Kashmir. There is a lot of geographical information in this book, along with personal impression of the local politics of the regions that he travelled through. The book ends with a chapter on missionary activity in China. This book is a reprint of the 1904 edition, and has 9 illustrations and 1 map. About the Author:-Lieutenant Colonel Sir Francis Edward Younghusband, KCSI KCIE was a British Army officer, explorer, and spiritual writer. He is remembered for his travels in the Far East and Central Asia; especially the 1904 British expedition to Tibet, led by himself, and for his writings on Asia and foreign policy. He held positions including British commissioner to Tibet and President of the Royal Geographical Society.He made captain in 1889, and was dispatched with a small escort of Gurkha soldiers to investigate an uncharted region north of Ladakh, where raiders from Hunza had disrupted trade between Yarkand and India the previous year. Whilst encamped in the valley of the Yarkand River, Younghusband received a messenger at his camp, inviting him to dinner with Captain Bronislav Grombchevsky, his Russian counterpart in "The Great Game". He accepted the invitation to Grombchevsky's camp, and after dinner the two rivals talked into the night, sharing brandy and vodka, and discussing the possibility of a Russian invasion of British India. The Title 'The Heart Of A Continent: A Narrative Of Travels In Manchuria, Across The Gobi Desert, Through The Himalayas, The Pamirs, And Hunza 1884-1894 written/authored/edited by Francis Younghusband', published in the year 2020. The ISBN 9788121234733 is assigned to the Paperback version of this title. This book has total of pp. 367 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Gyan Publishing House. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is . Size of the book is 13.34 x 21.59 cms Vol:-