Journal of a tour through part of the Snowy Range of the Himala Mountains, and to the sources of the rivers Jumna and Ganges

Fraser, James Baillie

Published by printed for Rodwell and Martin, Bond Street, London, 1820

About this Item

First edition, 4to, pp. xx, 548; large engraved folding map; contemporary marbled boards, neatly rebacked, recased, and retipped in recent brown morocco stamped in gilt on spine; the map shows some offsetting but is free of foxing; very good and sound. Without the extra folio album containing 21 plates, usually missing. "An amazing record of a region which remained little known until the twentieth century. It provides meticulous information on a variety of subjects -- history, agriculture, flora and fauna, geology, ethnology, commerce, manufactures, mineralogy; information which was collected under conditions of extreme physical discomfort and at times danger." (M. Archer & T. Falk, India Revealed: The Art and Adventures of James and William Fraser 1801-35, London, 1989). James Baillie Fraser (1783-1856) "was a Scot who in 1813 went to Kolkata (Calcutta) to join the family firm of Becher and Fraser. He remained there until 1820. In 1815, he accompanied his brother William, who was taking part in the Anglo-Nepalese War of 1814-16, on an expedition into the Garwhal Hills to find the sources of the Jumna and Ganges rivers. James and William Fraser were the first Europeans to reach many of the places they visited, which James vividly described in this account of the journey" (OCLC). Yakushi F191a.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Journal of a tour through part of the Snowy Range of the Himala Mountains, and to the sources of the rivers Jumna and Ganges
• Publisher: printed for Rodwell and Martin, Bond Street, London
• Publication Date: 1820
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Seller catalogs:
  • Travel
  • Asia
  • Exploration
  • India