McCallum’s narrative of “the journey that we made by motorcar from China to Chelsea during the months from June 1927 to May 1928 . . . We bought and took with us the Buick car in which we eventually accomplished the journey” (Introductory). The route ran from China to Cambodia and Malaya, into India and the foothills of the Himalayas, along the Grand Trunk Road through the Baluchistan desert to Persia, Iraq, and from Constantinople and the Balkans through Europe to London. The recipient of this copy - North Argyll (Alistair Cameron, 1896-1973) was a local historian and author of several booklets about Lochaber.