The Heart of a Continent: A Narrative of Travels in Manchuria, Across the Gobi Desert, Through the Pamirs, and Hunza 1884-1894

Younghusband, Francis Edward (Col.)

Verlag: John Murray, London, 1904

Beschreibung

A clean copy. Binding tight. Tissue guard to frontis present and unfoxed. Minor wear and bruising to cloth at tail of spine. No signatures or stamps. Light age toning to page edges and margins of leaves. 1/8" chips to cloth at lower corners of boards. ; xvii, [1], 332 pages + photogravure portrait frontis + 8 plates + colour folding map at rear. Brown cloth covers with colour illustration incoporating oriental art motifs on front board. Top page edges gilt. Gilt title on spine. Dimensions: 9" by 5 1/2". This work was first published in 1896. The book ran through 3 editions in 1896. The third edition of May 1896 was reprinted in August of 1896 and again in January of 1897. No further editions were printed until this stated "Fourth Edition" of 1904. Presumably this fourth edition was called for by the public interest in Tibet around the time of the British military invasion of Tibet in 1904, led by Colonel Younghusband. The fourth edition is abridged, with fewer illustrations and only 1 map. It has a new 1 page preface by the author. "The alterations I have made are merely verbal; and with the exception of the omission, for the sake of brevity, of two chapters on Chitral and Hunza, which did not deal with travel pure and simple, I venture to send out my book yet again in its original form, hoping that there may still be some who may find in reading it the same enjoyment which the writing and revising of it has afforded me." - from the author's preface, dated Hyantse, Tibet, May 30, 1904. ; 8vo. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 4671

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Heart of a Continent: A Narrative of ...

Verlag: John Murray, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1904

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good

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