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A Mountain in Tibet. The Search for Mount Kailas and the Sources of the Great Rivers of India

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ID2862981
AuthorsGeorge Woodcock (corresponding author), Charles Allen (0000-0003-4067-7596)
Year1983
Volume56
Issue3
Pages574
Publication date1983-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePacific Affairs (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0030-851X • E-ISSN: 1715-3379
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/2758237
OpenAlexW2022947759
LanguageEN
Citations received3

From 1808 to 1908 a succession of explorers and adventurers set out into the Himalayas and Tibet to discover the sources of the four great rivers of the Indian sub-continent: the Indus, Sutlej, Ganga and Brahmaputra. This is an account of that last great adventure

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Unique citing works3
Citations per year0,11
Citation span1999 - 2024 (26)
Citation velocityrecent
Highly citedNo

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