From 1808 to 1908 a succession of explorers and adventurers set out into the Himalayas and Tibet to discover the sources of the four great rivers of the Indian sub-continent: the Indus, Sutlej, Ganga and Brahmaputra. This is an account of that "last great adventure".
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A classic book from the great travel writer/historian, author of PLAIN TALES FROM THE RAJ, first published by Abacus in 1983
Charles Allen is the author of a number of bestselling books about Indian and the colonial experience elsewhere. A traveller, historian and master storyteller he is one of the great chroniclers of India.
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