Yun-nan : The Link Between India and the Yangtze de Davies, Major H.R - 1909

Cambridge at the University Press, 1909. Illustrated with many photographic plates, large octavo, pp xii, 431, slightly age-toned and with signs of use internally, lacking the front endpaper, front hinge a little weak, with the very large folding map ion the rear pocket, but this is very worn and lacking two sections, LACKING the tables of vocabularies, original blue cloth, a little worn, the spine head slightly frayed. VERY SCARCE. [ The author educated at Eton, where he was proficient in Oriental languages. Davies then joined the Army, and was sent to British-controlled Burma in 1887 and to Siam in 1892. In 1893 he was attached to a survey unit which surveyed the passes between Burma and China which located the Crouching Tiger Pass, the Heavenly Horse Pass and the Han Dragon Pass. On completion of the team's objectives Davies remained in China to explore the Yunnan area. On his return to England he was asked to survey a potential railway route from India to the Yangtze river via Yunnan and in 1898 returned to Burma. By mid-1899 his team had travelled nearly 2,500 miles of the proposed route, mapping the terrain in detail.]. First Edition. Cloth. Fair.