John Hanbury-Tracy

Who was John Hanbury-Tracy?

British Explorer and Naturalist. In 1935, with the backing of the Royal Geographical Society and accompanied by his friend R. Kaulback, he travelled to Tibet (Xizang) in search of the source of the Salween river or Naq Chu, the Black River of Tibet. They walked nearly three thousand miles in twenty-two months until intense cold and war with China eventually forced them back, but they returned with maps and both botanical and entomological collections. After Xizang, Hanbury-Tracy turned his attention to the Andes.