In breve: I mitici Pundit, i veri esploratori dell'Himalaya e del Tibet ignoto.
To thwart a prohibition against their exploration of the unknown lands of Central Asia, beginning in the 1860s, the British in India trained native Indians in surveying techniques and sent them beyond the northern frontiers to gather political and geographical information. Waller (political science, Vanderbilt) studies the adventures and the findings of these explorer-spies.

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