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(1) IN a third volume Dr. Sven Hedin concludes the popular account of his Tibetan expedition of 1905-8, of which the main instalment was published four years ago. The present volume collects “all the material for which there was no room” in the previous two tomes. This includes a description of the explorer's journey northwards from the Manasarowar Lake to the source of the Indus, wrhich Dr. Hedin was the first European actually to penetrate, and of the well-known route from that lake along theUtlej Valley back to Simla. Added to this are miscellaneous extracts from the books of previous writers and travellers on a variety of Tibetan topics, also a polemical defence of the author's discovery of the “Trans-Himalaya,” a claim which has been disputed by a writer in the Geographical Journal, on the ground that the existence of that range was undoubtedly known in a general way over a generation ago. The breezy, rollicking narrative reflects the abounding enthusiasm of the author, and couched largely in dialogue form it reads almost like a romance, conveying at times the impression of a holiday romp rather than a rigorous journey achieved only by the painful toil of man and beast.
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Travel in Tibet . Nature 92, 167–169 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/092167a0
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