THE HEART OF A CONTINENT: A Narrative of Travels in Manchuria, Across the Gobi D

New York 1904, Scribner's. Mustard cloth, very good, 332p., 332p., index, color fold-out map, 6 b.w. photos, 14.5 x 22.7 cm., in heavy mylar dust jackey. protector, top edge gilt. WITH THE AUTHOR'S SIGNED, DATED LETTER TIPPED IN RARE ! *** *** *** . RARE SIGNED, DATED LETTER FROM YOUNGHUSBAND: This title contains a letter on Sir Francis Younghusband's addressed stationery: "1, Vicarage Gate, Kensington, W.8." . The letter is dated: "Oct. 29.31." [1931]. It is addressed to his friend, "Dear Miss Tottenham." Younghusband replies to Ms.Tottenham's invitation for him to speak on "Dawn in India." . CONDITION: A very nice letter in Younghusband's hand, a couple very minor & faint stains to top and right side, else text very clean. . *** . Major General Sir George Younghusband [1859-1942], author and oriental traveler, *** Primary source and gripping narrative of mountain & desert travel in the Tibetan & Central Asian area. * The classic work of Central Asian exploration, perhaps the definitive work of its time. His journeys through the Pamirs established his reputation as a Central Asian explorer of the first rank and led to him being awarded the Founder's medal of the Royal Geographical Society. *** WITH CHAPTERS: 1. The Ever-white Mountain 2. Manchuria to Peking 3. Back to Peking 4. Peking to Kwei-Hwa-Cheng 5. Across the Gobi Desert 6. Through Turkestan to Yarkand 7. Into the Heart of the Himalayas 8. The Mustagh Pass 9. The Raids from Hunza 10. Among the Glaciers 11. A Kanjuti Stronghold 12. By the Skirts of the Pamirs to Hunza 14. To the Pamirs-1890 15. A Winter in Kashgar 16. Kashgar to India 17. The Missionary Questions in China 18. Impressions of Travel *** This excellent prinary resource covers Younghusband's famous journey from Peking to India via the Mustagh Pass. *** *** BRIEF LIST OF YOUNGHUSBAND'S WRITINGS: . Younghusband wrote 26 books in all between 1895 and 1942. The subjects ranged from Asian events, exploration, mountaineering, philosophy, spirituality, politics and more. * The Heart of a Continent (1896) * Kashmir (1909) * India and Tibet: a history of the relations which have subsisted between the two countries from the time of Warren Hastings to 1910; with a particular account of the mission to Lhasa of 1904. London: John Murray, 1910. * Within: Thoughts During Convalescence (1914) * The Sense of Community (1916) * The Gleam (1923) * Modern Mystics (1923) * Mother World in Travail for the Christ that is to be (1924) * The Epic of Mount Everest (1926) * Life in the Stars (1927) * Dawn in India (1930) * The Living Universe (1933) * The Mystery of Nature in Frances Mason. The Great Design: Order and Progress in Nature (1934) *** BIBLIOGRAPHY: Yakushi Y09, 27 * Marshall 913 * ALWAYS R A R E ! * .