Bibliography
The primary texts for researching The Last of Earth were multiple reports on nineteenth-century Tibetan expeditions published in the journals of the Royal Geographical Society, written by T.G. Montgomerie, H.Trotter, and other British officers.
Below is a selected list of books I consulted for research.
Akerman, James R., ed., The Imperial Map: Cartography and the Mastery of Empire (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009).
Allen, Charles, A Mountain in Tibet (London: First Futura, 1983. First published 1982).
Barrow, Ian J., Making History, Drawing Territory: British Mapping in India, 1756-1905 (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2003).
Baucom, Ian, Out of Place: Englishness, Empire and the Locations of Identity (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999).
Bhatt, Uma, and Shekhar Pathak, eds., Asia ki Peeth Par: Pandit Nain Singh Rawat, Jeewan, Anwesan tatha Lekhan (On the Back of Asia: Pandit Nain Singh Rawat’s Life, Explorations and Writings) (Nainital: Pahar, 2006).
Bourguet, Marie-Noelle, Christian Licoppe and H. Otto Sibum, eds., Instruments, Travel and Science: Itineraries of Precision from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century (London: Routledge, 2003).
Bower, Hamilton, Diary of a Journey across Tibet (London: Revington, Percival & Co., 1894).
Carey, William, Adventures in Tibet: Including the Diary of Miss Annie R. Taylor’s Remarkable Journey … through the Heart of the ‘Forbidden Land’ (New York: Baker & Taylor Company, 1901).
David-Neel, Alexandra, My Journey to Lhasa (London: William Heinemann, 1927).
David-Neel, Alexandra, Magic and Mystery in Tibet (New York: Dover Publications, 1971. French edition first published in 1929).
Dean, Riaz, Mapping the Great Game: Explorers, Spies and Maps in 19th-century Asia (Oxford: Casemate Publishers, 2019).
Dhompa, Tsering Wangmo, A Home in Tibet (Gurgaon: Penguin Books, 2014. First published 2013).
Dutta, Simani, Imperial Mappings in Savage Spaces: Baluchistan and British India (New Delhi: BR Publishing, 2002).
Edney H., Matthew, Mapping an Empire: The Geographical Construction of British India, 1765-1843 (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1997).
Galwan, Rassul Ghulam, Servant of Sahibs (Cambridge: W Heffer & Sons, 1924).
Grenard, Fernand, Tibet: The Country and its Inhabitants (London: Hutchinson & Co., 1904).
Hannigan, Tim, Murder in the Hindu Kush: George Hayward and the Great Game (New Delhi: Westland Ltd, 2012. First published in the UK in 2011).
Hedin, Sven Anders, Trans-Himalaya: Discoveries and Adventures in Tibet, Volumes 1, 2 & 3 (London: Macmillan, 1913).
Hopkirk, Peter, The Great Game: On Secret Service in High Asia (London: John Murray, 2016. First published 2006).
Hopkirk, Peter, Trespassers on the Roof of the World (Los Angeles: Jeremy P. Tarcher, 1982).
Hopkirk, Peter, Quest for Kim: In Search of Kipling’s Great Game (London: John Murray, 2006. First published 1996).
Johnson, Robert, Spying for Empire: The Great Game in Central and South Asia, 1757-1947 (London and St. Paul, Minnesota: Greenhill Books and MBI Publishing, 2006).
Kawaguchi, Ekai, Three Years in Tibet (Adyar, Madras: The Theosophist Office, 1909).
Keay, John, The Great Arc: The Dramatic Tale of How India was Mapped and Everest was Named (London: HarperCollins, 2001. First published 2000).
Kumar, Deepak, Science and the Raj, 1857-1905 (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1997).
Lahiri, Manosi, Mapping India (New Delhi: Niyogi, 2012).
Lamb, Alastair, ed., Bhutan and Tibet: The Travels of George Bogle and Alexander Hamilton, 1774-1777 (Hertingfordbury: Roxford Books, 2002).
Landon, Perceval, Lhasa: An Account of the Country and People of Central Tibet and of the Progress of the Mission Sent There by the English Government in the Year 1903-4, Volumes I and II (London: Hurst and Blackett, 1905).
Landor, Henry Savage, In the Forbidden Land, Volumes 1 and 2 (London: William Heinemann, 1898).
Landor, Henry Savage, China and the Allies, Volumes 1 and 2 (London: William Heinemann, 1901).
Madan, P. L., Indian Cartography: A Historical Perspective (New Delhi: Manohar, 1997).
Madan, P. L., Tibet: Saga of Indian Explorers (New Delhi: Manohar, 2004).
Markham, C. R., ed., Narratives of the Mission of George Bogle to Tibet (London: Trubner, 1876).
Markham, C. R., A Memoir on the Indian Surveys (London: WH Allen & Co., 1871).
Miller, Luree, On Top of the World: Five Women Explorers in Tibet (Seattle: Mountaineers Books, 2014. First published in 1976).
Moorcraft, William, and George Trebeck, Travels in the Himalayan Provinces of Hindustan and the Panjab, Volumes 1 and 2 (London: John Murray, 1841).
Oakley, E. S., Holy Himalaya (Edinburgh & London: Oliphant Anderson & Ferrier, 1905).
Prakash, Gyan, Another Reason: Science and the Imagination of Modern India (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999)
Rawat, Indra Singh, Indian Explorers of the 19th Century (New Delhi: Publications Division, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Government of India, 1973).
Rawling C. G., The Great Plateau (London: Edward Arnold, 1905).
Rijnhart, Susie Carson, With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple (Chicago, New York & Toronto: Fleming H. Revell Co., 1901).
Rockhill, William Woodville, The Land of the Lamas (New Delhi and Madras: Asian Educational Services, 1997. First published in the UK in 1891).
Ryavec, E. Karl, A Historical Atlas of Tibet (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015).
Seth, Vikram, From Heaven Lake: Travels through Sinkiang and Tibet (New Delhi: Penguin Books, 1992. First published in India in 1990).
Sherring, A. Charles, Western Tibet and the British Borderland: The Sacred Country of Hindus and Buddhists (London: Edward Arnold, 1906).
Stewart, Jules, Spying for the Raj: The Pundits and the Mapping of the Himalaya (Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing, 2006).
Teltscher, Kate, The High Road to China (London: Bloomsbury, 2007. First published in 2006).
Turner, Samuel, An Account of an Embassy to the Court of the Teshoo Lama in Tibet (London: G & W Nicol, 1800).
Ure, John, Shooting Leave: Spying Out Central Asia in the Great Game (London: Constable, 2010. First published in 2009).
Vigne, Godfrey Thomas, Travels in Kashmir, Ladak, Iskardo, the Countries Adjoining the Mountain-course of the Indus, and the Himalaya, North of the Punjab, Volumes 1 and 2 (London: Henry Colburn, 1842).
Wilford, John Noble, The Mapmakers (London: Pimlico, 2002. First published in 1981).
Young, George Winthrop, ed., Mountain Craft (London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1934. First published in 1920).
Yule, Henry, Hobson-Jobson (London: John Murray, 1903).