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The Gurkhas: Their Manners, Customs and Country

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By W. Brook Northey and C.J. Morris,   With a 22 page Foreword by The Hon C.G. Bruce (Leader of the 1922 Everest Expedition).

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Published by Cosmo Publications, Delhi, 1974 Reprint (of the 1928 1st Indian Edition), D/w (a few nicks and small tears), V.G.   A complete history of Nepal from antiquity, but particularly of the history of the rise of the Gurkha dynasty, illustrated with contemporary black-and-white photographs.  The book covers languages, festivals, religion, government, customs and slavery, going on to detail Western Nepal, Central Nepal and Eastern Nepal, with a short section on Nepal and The Great War.

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Weight0.7 kg