The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915)/Landor, A. Henry Savage
Landor, A. Henry Savege, F.R.I., F.R.G.S., Artist, and Explorer; 2nd s. of Charles Savege Landor; b. in Florence; educ: Licco Dante, Institute Tecnico, Florence; also in Paris; travelled extensively in the East visiting Japan, China, Corea, South Mangolia, Tibet, India, Nepal, Yezzo, the Kurile Islands, Phillippine Islands, Sulu Archipelago, Persia, Beluchistan, America, Australia, Egypt, Panama, etc.; is the first European to find both sources of the Brahmaputra and locate their exact position; set at rest the problem that no range higher than the Himalayas existed; explored the Central Mindanayo Island; is unmatched in mountaineering, having reached 23,490 feet on Mount Lumpa in Nepal, 1889; is the first to discover the “White Tribe” (mansakas); accompanied the allied troops on the march to Pekin; is the first Anglo-Saxon to enter the Forbidden City on the day of Allies’ entry; travelled from Russia to Calcutta, 190i; was cruising in the Sulu Archippellagoes and in the Phillippines for nearly a year, and visited many miner Islands; crossed Africa in its widest part travelling a distance of 8,500 miles and ending his journey at the most westerly point of that continent, 1906, Publications: Alone with the hairy Ainu, or 3,800 miles on a Pack-saddle; Corea or the land of the morning calm; In the Forbidden Land; the Gems of the East; An Explorer’s Adventures in Tibet, etc. Address; c/o Grindly and Co., 54, Parliament Street; Calappaino Empoliper, Vinci, Italy. Clubs: Grosvenor, Aero.