Tibetan Trek

No signatures. Rubbing and fading to dust-jacket. A couple of 15mm tears to margins of dust-jacket. Dust-jacket is not price-clipped. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; First printing. [1-4] (i)-(x) (11)-300 pages + frontispiece + 15 plates + 2 full page maps. Black cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Cloth dust-jacket. Page dimensions: 222 x 144mm. With a short introduction by Frank Kingdon-Ward. Contents: A Young Man's Fancy; Wet Blankets; The Promised Land; Bees in the Bonnet; New Ground; Alarums and Excursions; Perilous Paths; Curious Cattle; The Parting of the Ways; Melodious Sounds; Small Beer; The Importunate Female; Zoological Spa; Renegade Vegetarians; Divers Pains; Not Lost; Return of the Prodigal; Index. Illustrations: The Author; Tashi, A Mishmi, and B. C. In the Lohit Valley; The Rope Bridge at Shigatang; The Old Toper; Prayer Flags and the Temple, Shigatang; Kingdon Ward in High Street, Ata; Looking West from Chutong; Glacier Camp with Two Hanging Glaciers Beyond; The Last Sight of Kingdon Ward and Chumbi. From the Ata Kang La; The Incarnation and his Tutor; The Temple Orchestra, Getchi Gomba; The Chief Performer at the Modung Party; The Di Chu Valley; Pinzho at the Hot Springs; The Nam Tamai; Mule Bridge, Pangnamdim. Kaulback accompanied Kingdon-Ward on a plant hunting expedition to Tibet in 1933, before parting company and continuing on with a third companion, B. C. [Reference: Marshall "Britain and Tibet" 3930 - "Account,with maps, of his 1933 journey to Zayul with Kingdon Ward."; Yakushi (1984) K31 - "Account of the author's journey in the SE-Tibet, north of Assam and Burma with F. Kingdon-Ward in 1933."] ; 8vo

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Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton

Year: 1934

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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