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The book is an account of travelogue which undertaken around the 1920. The journey through the plains of Bengal has been hot, dirty and tedious: the scenery monotonous: unbroken plains of cultivated land and paddy fields, with an occasional mud village or group of arms: colourless save when the sun rises or sets: telling no tale except at Paksey, where the Ganges sweeps on its turbulent course. Darjeeling and British Bhutan are districts of Bengal. They lie side by side and together comprise a strip of territory fifty miles broad and twenty miles deep snatched from the State of Sikkim to afford a haven for wearied officials and a prosperous corner for the tea-planting community. From Kalimpong the road climbs northeast through Sikkim for fifty miles to the Tibetan passes of the Donkhia range, where one crosses the frontier; thence it descends into the Chumbi valley, and continues north-eastwards a further fifty miles to the Tableland of Tibet. Easterns account is not a political or commercial one, but one that describes the daily delights and toils of a pleasure excursion into Sikkim and Tibet. Armed with two boxes of food, two valises, two cameras and two glare googles, he and his companion Dr. Bishop, launched themselves into a journey primarily to escape the hot and stuffy plains of Bengal. The photographs illustrating this book are his work, and are an earnest of his knowledge of the frontier.
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ISBN : 9788121241809
Pages : 175
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