The Gilgit game. The explorers of the western Himalayas 1865-95

by John Keay

$35 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

Hamden, Connecticut: Archon Books, 1979. First American edition, 8vo, pp. xii, 2 , 277, 1 ; 1 double-page map, 2 full-page maps, 27 illustrations from photographs on rectos and versos of 8 plates, plus other illustrations in the text; a fine copy in a fine dust jacket. The Gilgit Game is a story of exploration unlike any other. The arena was 40,000 square miles of the world's highest mountains, an unknown and impossibly remote wilderness, which briefly

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