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Fergusson, W. N.

Adventure Sport and Travel on the Tibetan Steppes

1911

240,64 €

Horizon Books

(Toronto, Canada)

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Détails

Année
1911
Lieu d'édition
London. Constable and Company
Auteur
Fergusson, W. N.
Edition
First edition.
Thème
Travel - Asia
Langues
Anglais
Premiére Edition
Oui

Description

8vo [24.5 x 17 cm]; xvi, 343 pp, frontis (portrait), numerous illustrations including many full-page from the author and J. W. Brooke, 2 folding colored maps, index. original green pictorial cloth with gilt spine title lettering, short tear at spine foot, edges a little worn, front internal hinge cracked but firm, signature, very good, interior clean. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Yakushi F 29. Cordier 4396. Marshall 2059. The author based the work on the diaries and journal of John Weston Brooke, and provides a detailed narrative of Brooke's journeys through western China and Tibet in 1906-1908, including a meeting with the Dali Lama, the first since being displaced by his avoidance of Younghusband's incursion in Lhasa. On Brooke's second journey he was accompanied by C.H. Meares, who later joined Scott's expedition to the South Pole. Brooke was murdered by Lolo tribesmen in 1908. An important description of the area and its peoples with excellent illustrations.
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