Adventure, Sport and Travel on the Tibetan Steppes
by FERGUSSON, W.N
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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About This Item
London: Constable and Company Limited, 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London, Constable and Company Limited, 1911. Large octavo, xvi, 344 pages with 75 illustrations ('from photographs by the Author and the late Lieut. Brooke') plus a frontispiece portrait with a tissue-guard and 2 folding colour maps. Colour-pictorial cloth slightly marked, bumped and rubbed; leading and bottom edges uncut; edges, endpapers and adjacent leaves slightly foxed; small light tidemark to the top corner of the margin of the frontispiece; short tears to the maps expertly sealed; minimal signs of age and use; overall, an excellent copy of a most attractive publication. The book is 'mainly an account of two journeys taken through China and Tibet by the late Lieutenant Brooke, F.R.G.S. [John Weston Brooke, 1880-1908].
Mr. Brooke started on his first journey from Shanghai on August 1, 1906, and after crossing Tibet, returned to Shanghai in October, 1907.
He left Shanghai on his second journey in December, 1907, and travelled in Western Sechuan and Eastern Tibet until December 24, 1908, when he was cruelly murdered in the Independent Lolo Land' (preface). The account is based on Brooke's diary.
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- Bookseller
- Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 137647
- Title
- Adventure, Sport and Travel on the Tibetan Steppes
- Author
- FERGUSSON, W.N
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Constable and Company Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1911
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