Two Summers in the Ice-Wilds of Eastern Karakoram: The Exploration of Nineteen Hundred Square Miles of Mountain and Glacier (Classic...
- ISBN-10
- 1528075145
- ISBN-13
- 9781528075145
- Category
- Science
- Pages
- 574
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017-09-17
- Publisher
- Forgotten Books
- Author
- Fanny Bullock Workman
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Excerpt from Two Summers in the Ice-Wilds of Eastern Karakoram: The Exploration of Nineteen Hundred Square Miles of Mountain and Glacier The tonga, although a most bone-shaking vehicle, possesses the advantage that one endowed with the requisite amount of endurance Of motion, dust, and mud can reach Srinagar in two to two-and-a-half days from Rawalpindi. Should the much Slower landau be pre ferred. As being more comfortable, the traveller has to take the chances of the overcrowded bungalows for five or Six nights, and the correspondingly greater chance of delay and danger from storms. Still more comfortable, though considerably more expensive, is the recently established motor-service, which covers the distance in two days; but this, with its Indian chaufieurs, upon the narrow road congested by ekka and bullock-trains and with inadequate. Protecting wall, in places, along the precipices above the J belum river, presents Special elements Of danger from which many would shrink. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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