Tibetan Trek
by Kaulback, Ronald
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Hodder and Stoughton. Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket. 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. No signatures. Rubbing and fading to dust-jacket. A couple of 15mm tears to margins of dust-jacket. Dust-jacket is not price-clipped. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; First printing. [1-4] (i)-(x) (11)-300 pages + frontispiece + 15 plates + 2 full page maps. Black cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Cloth dust-jacket. Page dimensions: 222 x 144mm. With a short introduction by Frank Kingdon-Ward. Contents: A Young Man's Fancy; Wet Blankets; The Promised Land; Bees in the Bonnet; New Ground; Alarums and Excursions; Perilous Paths; Curious Cattle; The Parting of the Ways; Melodious Sounds; Small Beer; The Importunate Female; Zoological Spa; Renegade Vegetarians; Divers Pains; Not Lost; Return of the Prodigal; Index. Illustrations: The Author; Tashi, A Mishmi, and B. C. In the Lohit Valley; The Rope Bridge at Shigatang; The Old Toper; Prayer Flags and the Temple, Shigatang; Kingdon Ward in High Street, Ata; Looking West from Chutong; Glacier Camp with Two Hanging Glaciers Beyond; The Last Sight of Kingdon Ward and Chumbi. From the Ata Kang La; The Incarnation and his Tutor; The Temple Orchestra, Getchi Gomba; The Chief Performer at the Modung Party; The Di Chu Valley; Pinzho at the Hot Springs; The Nam Tamai; Mule Bridge, Pangnamdim. Kaulback accompanied Kingdon-Ward on a plant hunting expedition to Tibet in 1933, before parting company and continuing on with a third companion, B. C. [Reference: Marshall "Britain and Tibet" 3930 - "Account,with maps, of his 1933 journey to Zayul with Kingdon Ward."; Yakushi (1984) K31 - "Account of the author's journey in the SE-Tibet, north of Assam and Burma with F. Kingdon-Ward in 1933."] ; 8vo .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002273
- Title
- Tibetan Trek
- Author
- Kaulback, Ronald
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Hodder and Stoughton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1934
- Keywords
- Tibet
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Renaissance Books
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Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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