The making of a frontier. Five years' experiences and adventures in Gilgit Hunza Nagar Chitral and the eastern Hindu-Kush

by Algernon Durand, Colonel

$150 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

London: John Murray, 1900. First edition, 8vo, pp. xvi, 298, 4 ads; gravure frontispiece portrait, 35 plates, and a folding map printed in color; original blue cloth stamped in gilt on spine; light wear; very good, sound, and clean. The author, the British Agent at Gilgit in 1889-94, describes an interesting record of frontier travel, war, sport, and history of the formation of the Gilgit frontier Yakushi . Yakushi D369. Item #67756

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