Tibetan Trek
de Kaulback, Ronald
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket
- Librería
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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Sobre este artículo
London: Hodder and Stoughton. Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket. 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. No signatures. Rubbing and fading to dust-jacket. A couple of 15mm tears to margins of dust-jacket. Dust-jacket is not price-clipped. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; First printing. [1-4] (i)-(x) (11)-300 pages + frontispiece + 15 plates + 2 full page maps. Black cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Cloth dust-jacket. Page dimensions: 222 x 144mm. With a short introduction by Frank Kingdon-Ward. Contents: A Young Man's Fancy; Wet Blankets; The Promised Land; Bees in the Bonnet; New Ground; Alarums and Excursions; Perilous Paths; Curious Cattle; The Parting of the Ways; Melodious Sounds; Small Beer; The Importunate Female; Zoological Spa; Renegade Vegetarians; Divers Pains; Not Lost; Return of the Prodigal; Index. Illustrations: The Author; Tashi, A Mishmi, and B. C. In the Lohit Valley; The Rope Bridge at Shigatang; The Old Toper; Prayer Flags and the Temple, Shigatang; Kingdon Ward in High Street, Ata; Looking West from Chutong; Glacier Camp with Two Hanging Glaciers Beyond; The Last Sight of Kingdon Ward and Chumbi. From the Ata Kang La; The Incarnation and his Tutor; The Temple Orchestra, Getchi Gomba; The Chief Performer at the Modung Party; The Di Chu Valley; Pinzho at the Hot Springs; The Nam Tamai; Mule Bridge, Pangnamdim. Kaulback accompanied Kingdon-Ward on a plant hunting expedition to Tibet in 1933, before parting company and continuing on with a third companion, B. C. [Reference: Marshall "Britain and Tibet" 3930 - "Account,with maps, of his 1933 journey to Zayul with Kingdon Ward."; Yakushi (1984) K31 - "Account of the author's journey in the SE-Tibet, north of Assam and Burma with F. Kingdon-Ward in 1933."] ; 8vo .
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Detalles
- Librería
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 002273
- Título
- Tibetan Trek
- Autor
- Kaulback, Ronald
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket
- Edición
- First Edition
- Editorial
- Hodder and Stoughton
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1934
- Palabras clave
- Tibet
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Renaissance Books
Miembro de Biblio desde 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
Sobre Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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