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a)
TITLE: The Diary of a Civilian's Wife in India, 1877-1882
AUTHOR: Mrs. Robert Moss King
PUBLISHER: Richard Bentley and Sons
PLACE: London
YEAR: 1884
NO.OF PAGES:
Volume I: 290 including 16 Illustrations
Volume II: 268 including 16 Illustrations
BINDING: Original Cloth
SIZE: 20 x 13.5 x 2.5 cm
Elizabeth Augusta Moss King accompanied her husband to India, and on their second tour of duty she wrote diaries which werepublished in two volumes in 1884 entitled Diary of a Civilian's Wife in India 1877-1882 (4). She illustrated both volumes with many drawings made by herself while travelling.
b)
TITLE: Our Visit to Hindostan, Kashmir & Ladakh
AUTHOR: Mrs J C Murray Ayensley
PUBLISHER: Wm. H Allen & Co.
PLACE: London
YEAR: 1879
NO.OF PAGES: x + 326 Pages, Chromolithographic frontispiece, illustrations
BINDING: Original decorated boards with all edges gilt
SIZE: 20.8 x 14.5 x 3 cm.br.The author describes the peoples, conditions, customs, building, etc, as she travelled from Bombay to Agra, Delhi, Lahore, Kashmir, Ladakh, Leh, Belgaum, Saugor, Benares, Allahabad, Muttra, Jeypore, Meerut, Simla to Kulu to the Solang Valley, Lucknow, Cawnpore, Poona, etc. There is a brief mention of tea cultivation in Kulu, opium factory in Ghazipore, Sikh festivals, camp life in Kashmir, sheep as beasts of burden.
c)
TITLE: The Indian Alps and how We Crossed Them
SUB TITLE: A Tour In the Interior of the Himalayas by a Lady Pioneer
AUTHOR: Nina Elizabeth Mazuchelli
PUBLISHER: Dodd, Mead and Company
PLACE: New York
YEAR: 1875
NO.OF PAGES: 612 Pages, 10 colour chromolithographic plates, 1 black and white foldedmap and numerous black and white illustrations
BINDING: Brown cloth with attractive tooling on the upper cover, all edges gilt
SIZE: 26.3 x 20 x 4.6 cm
This book is one of the early mountaineering classics of Himalayan travel, and one of the few early exploration books that was not primarily a hunting expedition. Elizabeth Sarah Mazuchelli, known as Nina (1832-1914), was living in Darjeeling, India, with her husband, a chaplain in the British army, when she became determined to make an extended tour of the glaciers of the eastern Himalayas.
They following the Nepal-Sikkim frontier along the Singailila Ridge & while at Darjeeling set off on a journey to explore the glaciers of the eastern Himalayas to the Singalila Ridgeand Pass with much baggage, taking with them many coolies to bear their supplies.
Accompanied by the District Officer and an army of bearers, they set forth with Nina ensconced in a sort of sedan chair and before long were hopelessly lost inthe snowfields. Their survival was just fools' luck. As Jane Robinson concludes in Wayward Women, 'It was a farcical expedition and Nina was the first to admit it, making her account an affectionate burlesque. But Nina's account has become by defaulta classic of mountaineering literature she was, after all, the first Englishwoman to have travelled so far into the eastern Himalaya (they all but reached the Tibetan border before turning
back) a real 'Lady Pioneer'.'
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