Geographical Results of the Tibet Mission.
(Washington). Smithsonian Institution, 1905. Stock ID #221735 Sir Francis Younghusband (1863-1942) returned to a hero's welcome following his Tibet "Expedition" of 1903-4, which was, in reality a militarized diplomatic mission driven by geopolitical anxiety (the Great Game) and was marked by dramatic clashes and some 2,700 Tibetan casualties. This report was originally read at the Royal Geographical Society in London in February 1905 (here reprinted from a Smithsonian Annual Report of the same year) and was widely reviewed. One such appearing in "Nature" belied the military truths: When referring to this item please quote stockid 221735.
Disbound report (from the Annual Report for the Smithsonian Institution): pp 265-277, 8 black and white photographic plates, 22.5 x 14.7 cms, front leaf loose, age-toning and inner edge a trifle marked but otherwise in very good condition.
"[Younghusband] was also able to touch briefly upon some of the results obtained by the scientific experts who accompanied the mission, as well as by the survey party under Captains Rawling and Ryder, which in the late autumn did excellent work along the whole course of the Upper Brahmaputra, proving definitely that no peaks higher than Everest exist on this flank of the Himalayas."
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