The desert road to Turkestan.
de LATTIMORE, Owen
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London, Methuen & Co., 1928.Original brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With 2 double-page maps depicting the road to Turkestand and the Mongolian trade route and 48 photographic illustrations. XIV,331 pp.First edition. - Owen Lattimore (1900 - 989) was an American author, educator, and influential scholar of China and Central Asia, especially Mongolia. During his year in Beijing before departing on his expedition, he met his wife, Eleanor Holgate. For their honeymoon they planned to travel from Beijing to India, he overland, she by rail across Siberia. In the event, the plans were disrupted and she had to travel alone by horse-drawn sled for 640 km in February to find him. She described her journey in Turkestan Reunion (1934), he in The Desert Road to Turkestan (1928) and High Tartary (1930).Yakushi p.234.
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