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Lattimore, Owen

The Desert Road to Turkestan

1929

162.62 €

Horizon Books

(Toronto, Canada)

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Year of publication
1929
Place of printing
Boston. Little, Brown, and Company
Author
Lattimore, Owen
Edition
First American edition.
Keyword
Travel - Asia
Languages
English
First edition
Yes

Description

8vo [23 x 15 cm]; xv, 373 pp, frontis, numerous other illustrations from photos, endpaper maps with route in red, appendix on details of route, index. original cloth, spine lightly sunned but with the title lettering still clear, spine lightly worn, very good clean and unmarked copy. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. An account of author's 1926 and 1927 travels on a 1,600 mile route, the Jao Lu, following the caravan trails through Mongolia from China to Chinese Turkestan. Bibliog. Mongolica 2282.