Scarce first edition, second impression. Deasy (1866-1947) was an Irish Army officer stationed in India between 1888 and 1896. Later he became one of the first westerners to write a detailed account of Tibet, covering his travels between 1897 and 1899, for which he won the Royal Geographical Society’s Founder’s Medal in 1900 and was a co-founder of the Royal Society for Asian Affairs. He had surveyed nearly 40,000 square miles of the Himalayas. This, Deasy’s only book, is a fascinating, well illustrated travel narrative.