WONDERS OF THE HIMALAYA.

New York [1929], Dutton. Blue cloth, very good, 210p., map, b.w. photo frontispiece. S C A R C E Major General Sir George Younghusband (1859-1944), author and oriental traveller, *** A primary account of a treck to the highlands of Tibet while on leave in the Himalaya. By Kulu to Simla, from Turkestan to India, the Mustagh Pass, through Kashmir, raiders & Russians, meeting the Kirghiz, search for the Saltoro Pass, rest and reflection, Raiders' Stronghold, meeting the Russians, Manchuria, Hunza and the secret of the Himalaya. * Fascinating primary resource, excelltne memoir of Younghusband's Himalayan expeditions. * Born May 31, 1863, Murree, India -died July 31, 1942, Lytchett Minster, Dorset, England. *** *** BRIEF LIST OF YOUNGHUSBAND'S WRITINGS: . Younghusband wrote 26 books in all between 1895 and 1942. The subjects ranged from Asian events, exploration, mountaineering, philosophy, spirituality, politics and more. * The Heart of a Continent (1896) * Kashmir (1909) * India and Tibet: a history of the relations which have subsisted between the two countries from the time of Warren Hastings to 1910; with a particular account of the mission to Lhasa of 1904. London: John Murray, 1910. * Within: Thoughts During Convalescence (1914) * The Sense of Community (1916) * The Gleam (1923) * Modern Mystics (1923) * Mother World in Travail for the Christ that is to be (1924) * The Epic of Mount Everest (1926) * Life in the Stars (1927) * Dawn in India (1930) * The Living Universe (1933) * The Mystery of Nature in Frances Mason. The Great Design: Order and Progress in Nature (1934) *** REFERENCES: Neate Y31 *** .