Description: xvi, 420 pages + frontis. 80 b&w illustrations from photographs. Original green cloth covers cover with picture in black of a yak and two men ascending a path on the front cover. Black lettering on spine.

Dimensions: 8 by 6 inches.

Contents: Explorations in Tibet and Turkestan; Difficulty of surveying; Yaks; Sheep; Ponies; Camels; Lost in the desert; Bad state of transport; Frost-bitten; Yarkand; China; Gorges; Frozen Rivers; Travelling in the dark; Russian designs on territory; Appendices on plants, mammals, and survey information.

Condition: Good. Prize label on front endpaper. Slight spine lean. Minor wear to ends of spine. 1/4” fraying to one corner. Minor rubbing to boards. Minor foxing. Large folding frontis map missing. No signatures or markings.

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