Author: Bruce, Major The Hon. C. G.,
Title: Twenty Years in the Himalaya
Description: London, Edward Arnold, 1910. 1st edition. Leather Bound. pp. xiv, 335. Royal 8vo. Handsomely re-bound with a polished calf spine over marbled boards. New endpapers. The spine is nicely tooled, with five raised bands. Frontispiece photo of the author (in local costume) is present with tissue guard. Profusely illustrated with black-and-white photographs and the large, folded, colour map bound in at the end of the book is in excellent condition. Edges are a bit rubbed, internally clean, overall very good. Ill.: folding map, b&w photos. Charls Granville Bruce (1866-1939) was a soldier, mountaineer, and traveller. He was educated at Harrow and Repton, commencing his military service in England before transferring in 1889 to the 5th Gurkha Rifles (spelled 'Goorkha' in his book), where he evolved a system of training for mountain warfare. He saw service in the North-West Frontier of India and travelled extensively in the Himalayas, and was part of the Nanga Parbat expedition in 1895. During the War he was wounded at Gallipoli and commanded the Independent Frontier Brigade. In 1920, he was invalided out as a brigadier-general. He then organized and led the Mount Everest expeditions of 1922 and 1924. In this book, Bruce attempts 'to give those interested in Mountain Travel and Mountain Exploration, who have not been so luckily placed as myself, some account of the Hindu Koosh and Himalaya Ranges.. My object is to try and show the great contrasts between people, country, life, etc. that exist in the different districts, from the Kafir border on the west to the Bhootan border on the east.'.

Keywords: Himalayas; folding map, b&w photos


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