Nepal the Gurkhas' Mysterious Land On India's Frontier

Product DescriptionGurkhas, the subject of these pages, the mountainous home of a recklessly brave and hardy race known as the Gurkhas, ranks as a most powerful and favored of India's frontier tribes. This book gives a vivid description of the landscape and the people of this region that was at one time a terra-incognita - an unknown as well as mysterious land to the outside world.About the AuthorHenry Ballantine was born on November 18, 1846 in Ahmednagar, India to missionary parents Elizabeth and Henry Ballantine. Henry Ballantine graduated from Amherst College in 1868. He worked as Merchant in Bombay from 1870 to 1872, and then in New York until 1891, when he returned to Bombay to serve as Consul from 1891-1896. Henry later worked as a Claims Adjuster for an insurance company, and he maintained offices in Bombay, Caclutta and other cities in India. Ballantine authored the following books about his travel in South Asia. Nepaul, the Land of the Goorkhas, Harper's New Monthly Magazine (1889). On India's Frontier, or Nepal, the Gurkhas' Mysterious Land. New York, J. Selwin Tait & Sons , 1895