The Heart of a Continent.

£900 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books

The title that established Younghusband as a serious Central Asian explorer. Starting in Manchuria, he continued to the Gobi Desert, to Kashmir and Kashgar, finally exploring the Pamir Plateau. First edition; 8vo; xix, 409 pp, photogravure frontispiece, 8 black and white illustrations, folding map at rear, later endpapers; original green cloth gilt, a very good copy. Yakushi Y27a.

• Binding: Hardcover

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