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Starting in Manchuria, he continued to the Gobi Desert, to Kashmir and Kashgar, finally exploring the Pamir Plateau.
Starting in Manchuria, he continued to the Gobi Desert, to Kashmir and Kashgar, finally exploring the Pamir Plateau.
Starting in Manchuria, he continued to the Gobi Desert, to Kashmir and Kashgar, finally exploring the Pamir Plateau.

YOUNGHUSBAND, Capt. Frank E.

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

London, John Murray, 1896.

£900.00
£900.00

The Heart of a Continent.

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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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Starting in Manchuria, he continued to the Gobi Desert, to Kashmir and Kashgar, finally exploring the Pamir Plateau.

The Heart of a Continent.

£900.00
£900.00

Ask a question

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A first English edition of The Silk Road by Sven Hedin, which deals with the exploration of the region around Lop-Nor in Eastern Turkestan; Hedin travelled by car across the Gobi Desert along the Imperial Highway.
A first English edition of The Silk Road by Sven Hedin, which deals with the exploration of the region around Lop-Nor in Eastern Turkestan; Hedin travelled by car across the Gobi Desert along the Imperial Highway.

HEDIN, Sven.
The Silk Road. 1938.
£125.00

First edition of Narrative of Various Journeys in Balochistan by Charles Masson, one of the most captivating firsthand accounts of the 'Great Game'.
First edition of Narrative of Various Journeys in Balochistan by Charles Masson, one of the most captivating firsthand accounts of the 'Great Game'.

MASSON, Charles.
Narrative of Various Journeys in Balochistan, 1842.
£3,000.00

First edition of Aurel Stein's On Alexander's Track to the Indus, his passion project on the routes and battlefields of Alexander's campaign in the east.
First edition of Aurel Stein's On Alexander's Track to the Indus, his passion project on the routes and battlefields of Alexander's campaign in the east.

STEIN, Sir [Marc] Aurel.
On Alexander's Track to the Indus. 1929.
£1,250.00

First edition of Nineveh and Its Remains by Austen Henry Layard, of his first expedition to Iraq and Mosul.
First edition of Nineveh and Its Remains by Austen Henry Layard, of his first expedition to Iraq and Mosul.

LAYARD, Austen Henry.
Nineveh and Its Remains: 1849.
£500.00

First edition of the The Mulfuzat Timury by Charles Stewart, the first Western translation of the <em>Malfuzat-i Timuri</em>, allegedly Timur's own autobiography and one of the few primary sources of his reign alongside the Zafarnama.
First edition of the The Mulfuzat Timury by Charles Stewart, the first Western translation of the <em>Malfuzat-i Timuri</em>, allegedly Timur's own autobiography and one of the few primary sources of his reign alongside the Zafarnama.

[TIMUR]; STEWART, Charles (translator).
The Mulfuzat Timury, or Authobiographical Memoirs of the Moghul Emperor Timur, 1830.
£3,750.00

First edition with dust jacket, of Peter Fleming's Bayonets to Lhasa, the story of Younghusband's military expedition to Tibet which had been conceived by Lord Curzon as part the 'Great Game' against Russia.
First edition with dust jacket, of Peter Fleming's Bayonets to Lhasa, the story of Younghusband's military expedition to Tibet which had been conceived by Lord Curzon as part the 'Great Game' against Russia.

FLEMING, Peter.
Bayonets to Lhasa. 1961.
£150.00

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