To the Alps of Chinese Tibet an account of a journey of exploration up to and among the snow-clad mountains of the Tibetan frontier

by GREGORY, J[OHN] W[ALTER] and, GREGORY, C.J

First Edition

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London: Seeley Service & Co.. Very Good. 1923. First Edition. Hard Cover. 321 pages, 18 plates, 7 maps (1 folding), cloth, covers sun-faded but lettering on spine quite evident. The folding map in the rear has been neatly detached but is in excellent condition. Binding is tight, text is clean. Former owners name inside front cover. 1st edition. An account of expedition in 1922 in the area of Minya Konka (Gongga Shan), on the western border of China and Eastern Tibet (Sichuan province, central China, in the Daxue Mountains). From the website of The Geological Society of London: ;John Walter Gregory (1864-1932) was an intrepid Scottish explorer, stratigrapher, invertebrate palaeontologist and geomorphologist who undertook a number of adventures to India, Spitzbergen, Australia and Africa and the Himalayas. He was the first professor at the University of Melbourne, where he travelled to the "Dead Heart" (his term) of the continent. From Glasgow University he mounted expeditions to Libya, Angola, India and the East African Rift Valley, as well as Chinese Tibet. He wrote over 300 papers on a bewilderingly wide variety of geological topics.' .

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