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Lansdell, Henry

Chinese Central Asia; A Ride to Little Tibet

1893

850,70 €

Horizon Books

(Toronto, Canada)

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Anno di pubblicazione
1893
Luogo di stampa
London. Sampson Low, Marston & Company
Autore
Lansdell, Henry
Edizione
First edition.
Soggetto
Travel - Asia
Lingue
Inglese
Prima edizione

Descrizione

8vo [22.5 x 15 cm]; 2 volumes, xl, 456, [iv, ads for author's other books incl. specimen page for Russian Central Asia]; xvi, 512 pp, 3 colored folding maps (expert repairs), 80 illustrations including full-page & double-page, bibliog, index. original pictorial cloth, rubbed, rebacked preserving original covers and most of spines, one spine faded, new endpapers, very good clean set preserved in custom cloth slipcase. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. The author attempted to deliver a letter from the Archbishop of Canterbury to the Dali Lama in 1888 but failed to reach Lhasa. Instead he visited Leh, Samarkand, Tashkent, Bokhara, Kuldja, Kashgar, Yarkand, Khotan, Kashmir, etc. Yakushi L38. The appendix lists the mammals, birds, fish, reptiles and insects, especially lepidoptera (butterflies) that the author collected on his journey, as well as an extensive bibliography.