The stormswept roof of Asia

by yak, camel & sheep caravan in Tibet, Chinese Turkestan & over the Karakoram. Translated from the German by B. K. Featherstone by Emil Trinkler

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First edition

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, n.d., 1931 . First edition in English, American issue; 8vo, pp. 4 , 11-312; folding map, 27 illustrations from photographs on 16 plates; fine copy in original orange cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine, in an uncommon dust jacket showing a few short tears and creases. Account of the author's Central Asian expedition of 1927-28, with H. de Terra and W. Bosshard; Srinagar, Leh, Kashgar, the Western Taklamakan desert

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