Adventure, Sport and Travel on the Tibetan Steppes.

Name: Adventure, Sport and Travel on the Tibetan Steppes.
Author: Fergusson, W. N.

Book Description

First edition. 8vo. pp. xvi, 343; 2 folding colour maps, photogravure frontis., numerous photo. illusts.; small ink spot to fore-edge of text block, else very good in the original decorative cloth, slightly discoloured on spine, a little bumped to extremities, with a 4pp. prospectus for the book loosely inserted, and an Encyclopedia Britannica map of the Himalaya tipped in to the front pastedown.

Dealer Notes

Chiefly composed from the diaries of Lieut. Jack Brooke, Fergusson recounts two major ventures. The first journey in 1906-7 was conducted on a well-known route from Koko Nor over the Tangla to Tibet. The second and last journey was undertaken in December 1907 and culminated in the loss of Brooke's life, along with that of his Tibetan boy interpreter. Following a disagreement with a Lolo chief concerning payment for trespassing on Lololand, Brooke shot and killed the chief and was subsequently attacked and killed by another local chief.

Author Fergusson, W. N.

Date 1911

Binding Original decorative cloth

Publisher London: Constable and Company

Condition See description

Pages xvi, 343

Price: £375.00

Offered by Meridian Rare Books

Contact Dealer Email to Friend Print

Friends of the PBFA

For £10 get free entry to our fairs, updates from the PBFA and more.

Please email info@pbfa.org for more information

Important Information

Adventure, Sport and Travel on the Tibetan Steppes.

Book Description

Dealer Notes

Friends of the PBFA

Join PBFA

Important Information

Adventure, Sport and Travel on the Tibetan Steppes.

Book Description

Dealer Notes

Other books

Friends of the PBFA

Join PBFA