Adventure Sport and Travel on the Tibetan Steppes.
London: Constable and Company Limited, 1911.
Price: $400.00
About the item
First edition. xvi, 343, [1] pp. Portrait frontispiece, 2 folding maps, numerous reproductions of photographs by the author and the late Lieut. Brooke. 1 vols. 8vo. Original green pictorial cloth, t.e.g., others uncut. Inner hinges cracked, minor shelfwear. Very good. Yakushi F29.
Item #249683
Lively account of two hunting expeditions through China and Tibet undertaken by Lt. John Weston Brooke, who was killed by Lolo robbers on December 24, 1908; Brooke started in Shanghai in August, 1906, and travelled through Western Sechuan and Eastern Tibet. The work is based on Brooke's diary, with other observations and photographs by W. N. Fergusson and C. H. Meares.
