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TITLE: VIEWS IN INDIA, CHIEFLY AMONG THE HIMALAYA MOUNTAINS
AUTHOR: G F White
EDITOR: Emma Roberts
PUBLISHER: Fisher Sons And Company
PLACE: London
YEAR: 1838
NO.OF PAGES: 94 Pages, 37 Steel Engravings
BINDING: Original decorated cloth-binding stamped with gilt medallion decoration of a dancing girl. All edges gilt.
SIZE: 32.5 x 26 x 2.7 cm
Lieutenant White of the 31st Regiment of the East India Co. records his Himalaya journey to the sources of the Jumna and Ganges rivers.
This work includes "description of the rocks in the Ganges and Sutlej, theKeeree pass, Hardwar, Mussoorie, Jamnotri, Gangotri, Nahaun, including an account of the ascent of Choor" (Kaul 751). The exquisite plates depict various scenes of the Ganges River, the Snowy Range of the Himalayas, Gungootree the Sacred Source of the Ganges, and the Valley of the Dhoon, among others. George Francis White (1808-98) served in the British Army, and was in India with the 31st Regiment of Foot from 1825-46. He fought in the Sutlej campaign of 1846 including the battles of Mudki andFerozeshah. White was a skillful amateur artist and many of his drawings were engraved. His drawings were used by Robert Burford for a panorama of the Himalayas exhibited at Leicester Square in 1847.
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