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London 1910, Chatto. Green cloth, very good, 247p., index, fold-out color map, 24 color plates, 2 figures. R A R E: TOGETHER WITH AN ORIGINAL DRAWING BY THE AUTHOR illustrated on p.118: DEVIL POST [Korea] on separate card. FIRST EDITION This trilogy covers in detail the author's sojourn in Manch- uria, Korea and Russian Turkestan. He went to Hulan, Moukden and Hsing Muntun, Liao Yang, the Thousand Peaks and Ashio. Then in Korea's Pyong Yang, relics of Roman Catholicism in Korea, Seoul, Fusan, Diamond Mountains, Dalny then on to Si- beria, Turkestan, Taskent, Tamerlane, Samarkand, Bokhara and through the Caucasus. A fascinating primary travel journal. Cordier SINICA 4036; Taylor CHINA p.62.