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James Scott, Australian medical student lost in the Himalayas for forty-three days without food, drinking from a snowball to rehydrate in the afternoon sun. Drawing by M. H. Boscott, 1993.

Shiva, Parvati and Ganesha enthroned on Mount Kailas with Nandi the bull. Chromolithograph by R. Varma.

Shiva as a Kirat (tribal Bhil huntsman) with a huntswoman. Chromolithograph by R. Varma.

Illustrations of the botany and other branches of the natural history of the Himalayan mountains, and of the Flora of Cashmere / By J. Forbes Royle.

James Scott, Australian medical student, lost in the Himalayas for forty-three days without food. Drawing by Martin Howard Boscott, 1993.

Joseph Dalton Hookers "Himalayan journals" : Tagebuch auf einer Reise in Bengalen, dem Himalaya in Sikkim und Nepal, dem Khasiagebirge, etc.

The forests of upper India and their inhabitants / by Thomas W. Webber.

Right over the mountain : travels with a Tibetan medicine man / Gill Marais.

A guide to source materials in the India Office Library and Records for the history of Tibet, Sikkim and Bhutan 1765-1950 / Amar Kaur Jasbir Singh.

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Joseph Dalton Hookers "Himalayan journals" : Tagebuch auf einer Reise in Bengalen, dem Himalaya in Sikkim und Nepal, dem Khasiagebirge, etc.

The forests of upper India and their inhabitants / by Thomas W. Webber.

Right over the mountain : travels with a Tibetan medicine man / Gill Marais.

Shiva, Parvati and Ganesha enthroned on Mount Kailas with Nandi the bull. Chromolithograph by R. Varma.

A guide to source materials in the India Office Library and Records for the history of Tibet, Sikkim and Bhutan 1765-1950 / Amar Kaur Jasbir Singh.