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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1970. First. Hardcover. the Dalai Lama's fight for Tibet. 235 pp, end paper maps. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1970. First. Hardcover. the Dalai Lama's fight for Tibet. 235 pp, end paper maps. More
NY: WW Norton, 1954. First. Hardcover. An adventure in Tibet. 248 pp, ill, end paper maps. The Scot who became a Tibetan. A wild ride against time through an unknown Himalayan track. VG+-nr fine in vg+ dj. More
London: Harvill Press, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Nomads of the Jade Sea. 242 pp, profuse color ill. Large format. In the far northern reaches of Kenya, (The Rift Valley) on the shores of Lake Turkana, lives a group of nomads. The area is so poorly endowed that it cannot support..... More
London: Argonaut Press, 1929. Argonaut Press Ltd to 1,050 Copies. Hardcover. together with the travels of Nicolo de Conti.. # 1029 of 1050 copies. 381 pp, colored frontis, folding map before ch 1, notes, appendices. Original yellow cloth cover white vellum. Lightly soiled. Fine inside, in fact partially uncut and..... More
Philadelpha: Lippincott. First. Hardcover. an account of the institution as it existed in the palace of the Turkist sultans with a history of the grand seraglio from its foundations to the present time. 277 pp, 35 ill in half tone, 7 photogravures and folding plan. Near fine copy in vg-vg+..... More
London: George Allen Unwin, 1932. First. Hardcover. 322 pp, 3 ill. Cubbon was commissioner of Mysore from 1834 to 1861. This book is a biographical account of his life and work there and compiled from material obtained both in India and the India Office in London. VG+ in vg+ dj..... More
London: Longman's Green, 1903. First British. Hardcover. 342 pp, ill. maps, large foldout map in rear. Ascent of Lefroy & Victoria, Waputehk ice field, Mount Murchison, Selkirks, north fork of the Saskatchewan River, discovery of the Columbia ice field, through the Selkirks, Bush River. Long respected work. From the library..... More