The heart of a continent: a narrative of travels in Manchuria across the Gobi Desert, through the Himalayas, the Pamirs, and Chitral 1884-1894

by Francis Younghusband

$375 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1896. First edition, American issue; 8vo, pp. xvii, 3 , 409, 1 ; 4 folding color maps, 18 plates; original decorative green cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine; small spot on the upper cover, previous owner's bookplate; generally, very good, clean, and sound. Narrative of the author's travels in the heart of Asia. The story begins his travel in Manchuria, then continued to the Gobi desert. From Yarkand he

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