Living on a cling and a prayer

AMONG photographic lots in the February 1 Travel & Exploration sale held by Bonhams (25/20/12% buyer’s premium) was an album of 37 large photographs taken on a 1905 visit to Bhutan and Sikkim by John Claude White.

In 1903-04 he had accompanied Sir Francis Younghusband’s controversial Tibet Mission – effectively a…

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