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The Heart of a Continent.

A Narrative of Travels in Manchuria, across the Gobi Desert, through the Himalayas, the Pamirs, and Hunza 1884-1894.

Stock Code 106499

London, John Murray, 1896

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The title that established Younghusband as a serious Central Asian explorer. Starting in Manchuria, he continued to the Gobi Desert, to Kashmir and Kashgar, finally exploring the Pamir Plateau.

First edition. 8vo, xix, 409 pp, photogravure frontispiece, 8 black and white illustrations, folding map at rear, later endpapers, original green cloth gilt, a very good copy.

Yakushi Y27a.
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The Heart of a Continent.

YOUNGHUSBAND, Capt. Frank E.

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