Authors starting with K from The Traveller's Bookshelf

8vo Oxford University Press 1950.. 1st edition. Frontispiece, 3 plates, 4 maps (2 folding) and bibliography. Terracotta cloth xiii+330pp. A clear concise history of Afghanistan and the borderlands of the North West Frontier Province. The author was 31 years in the area ending up as British Minister in Afghanistan. One of the best books on the subject. ... more information

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8vo Henry Holt & Co. New York 1937.. 1st US edition. Frontispiece, 30 plates of 56 photographs, 2 sketch maps and map on endpapers. Terracotta cloth with pictorial dustwrapper, a little worn at the edges. Some slight spotting. xiv+306pp. Maillart had been in Manchukuo reporting on events for a Paris Paper. She then went on to Peking. She wanted to return to Europe overland via Chinese Turkistan, a area in great turmoil but the whole area had been closed to foreigners for 4 years and permission wa... more information

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8vo Methuen 1940.. 1st edition. 15 plates of 22 photographs, 2 sketch maps on endpapers. Grey cloth with pictorial dustwrapper. xiii+279pp. Wu was sent as an 'advisor' by the new Nanjing government to Jin Suren, governor of Urumchi to get him back under control. Unfortunetely Wu was caught up in the Dongan revolt and the attack on the town in February 1933. His is an excellent eye witness account of this period seen from the Chinese prespective. ... more information

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8vo W Heffer & Sons 1927.. 1st edition. 4 folding maps (one in rear pocket). Author's compliment slip. Green pictorial cloth, lightly rubbed. xii+280pp. Light-hearted letters to friends and family at home from the Himalayas, especially Ladakh. ... more information

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8vo Henry Munro, Aberdeen nd (1934).. 1st edition. Green cloth, a little rubbed. 192pp. A book written to fill a gap in local lawyers' knowledge of Khasi Law. This the author feels had not been covered in enough depth in Gurdon's otherwise excellent book on the Khasi. Cantile who was Deputy Commissioner of the Khasi and Jainta Hills writes of inheritance, marriage and divorce, land tenure and tribal territorial jurisdiction. ... more information

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