හිමාලයෙන් එපිටට බිහිසුණු චාරිකාවක් Beyond The Himalayas

by John Geddie, පාලිත ජයකොඩි (Translator)

ඒ චාරිකාව ගැන.......

ඔවුන් ඉන්දියානු වන පෙත තුළට පිය තැබූයේ සති තුනක චාරිකාවකට ය. එහෙත් කිසිවෙකුත් නොපැතූ ලෙස ගමන කෙළවර වූයේ එමෙන් කිහිප ගුණයක කාලසීමාවකට පසු ය. වනචාරී ගෝත්‍රිකයන්ගෙන් ද බිහිසුණු ගිරි ශිඛර වල සැඟව තිබුණු අතොරක් නැති මර විපත්වලින් ද මුසල්මානු මංපහරන්නන්ගෙන් ද මිදී අන්තයේ සැනසුම් සුසුමක් හෙලද්දී ගම්වැසියන් හා හිතවතුන් හිත හදා ගෙන තුබුණේ ඔවුන් මළවුන්ගේ ලොවට ම ගියේ යැයි කල්පනා කරමිනි.

මේ ඔවුන්ගේ කතාන්දරය යි!

ඉන්දියානු වනපෙතින් ඇරඹී චීන දේශසීමාව ද ඉක්මවමින් වල්මත් වී අන්තයේ බුරුමයේ රැංගුන් නුවරින් මිනිස් වාසයකට ළඟා වූ ත්‍රාසජනක කතාවයි !

223 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1882

About the author

John Geddie was a Scottish journalist and author of several books mainly on the subject of Edinburgh. His earliest books were about foreign parts but it is not known whether he actually visited these places.

Reviews

[Santanu Dutta · Rating 4 out of 5]

A rare collection of travels in the north eastern India,across the high passes in eastern Himalayas into "Thibet" (Tibet as per the name used in the book throughout), past Tibet through to Burma and South Eastern Tibet in the valleys and divides of great Asiatic rivers as Irrawaddy, Salween and Mekong. Through a number of difficulties and a long ,long perilous journey they discover the secrets of lost cities Shans and the secret temples high in the mountains of south eastern Tibet and ends after crossing the Salween again along the Irrawaddy in the Capital City of Rangoon in British Burma.

This is a rare book first published in 1882. Of course we can not relate the document and narratives under today's light. The book is crisply written in smooth but varying paces matching their travel and the rivers, hills and valleys they countered. This is a digitized book made by Google to make the work available to readers across the globe. The edition, may be the original one is having a good many printing mistakes and some pages that can not be completely decipherable. This is the only drawback of this. That's why I hold one star less.

[SelkieK · Rating 3 out of 5]

Peoples of Himalayas through the eyes of young English explorers and their chief doctor Roland. Some of their adventures are, perhaps, hard to believe but that does not spoil the book. Its adventurous, its engaging and most interestingly it walks us through the important details of the past of colonialism.