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Index
Cover
About the Author
Also by Charles Allen
Copyright
Contents
Preface
Prologue: Death of a Bold and Most Ambitious Explorer
1 The Fountainhead of Asia
2 ‘Here Christians are said to live’: the Jesuit Explorers of Tibet
3 ‘A Mighty Maze without a Plan’: Hyder Jung Hearsey and the Sources of the Ganga
4 ‘A Tour to Eastern Tatary’: the British Discovery of Lake Manasarovar
5 Up the ‘Burrumpooter’: the Openion of the Upper Assam Valley
6 ‘The Queerest, Coolest Fish at Rugby’: Edmund Smyth and the Pundits
7 The ‘Missing Link’: the Exploration of the Tsangpo Gorge
8 The Monk and the Gentleman-Traveller: Ekai Kawaguchi and Henry Savage Landor
9 Sven Hedin: Hero and Martyr
10 Sven Hedin: Conqueror and Nazi
Glossary
Notes and Sources
Index
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