A Summer Ride Through Western Tibet

316 pp. 6 x 4. Gilt titles, ribbon marker bound in. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. A travelogue by the daughter of a Glasgow ironmaster, who spent several years in the 1900s traveling around Asia. CONTENTS: I. Preparations for the Journey; II. Sind Valley and Zoji La; III. Stony Tibet and Its Buddhists; IV. A Wedding; V. Leh and Himis; VI. The Devil Dance at Himis Gompa; VII. A Tamasha at Himis. The Approach to Chang La; VIII. The Chang La and the Pangkong Tso; IX. From Pangkong Tso Back to Leh; X. Leh. A Funeral Shopping, and a Tamasha; XI. Some Correspondence; XII. Sport. Missionary Work; XIII. Returning Down the Indus Valley; XIV. The Fort of Balu-Mkhar, Khalatse; XV. Tibetan Music and Poetry; XVI. Skirbichan and the Hanu Nullah; XVII. Goma Hanu. A Lonely Vigil and an Attack on the Camp; XVIII. From Goma Hanu to Khapallu Over the Chorbat La; XIX. Khapallu; XX. Life in Khappallu; XXI. the Industries of Khapallu; XXII. Harvest at Khapall. Chackchang Mosque; XXIII. The Big Tamasha at Khapallu; XXIV. From Khapallu to Skardo; XXV. Skardo and Shigar; XXVI. The Buddha Rock and Ancient Barrage at Sadpor; XXVII. The Tehsildar of Scardo; XXVIII. Passes and Plains; XXIX. Down the Gilgit Road to the Vale of Kashmir; Appendices; Index.