Titles starting with D from The Traveller's Bookshelf

8vo John Murray 1970.. 1st edition. 16 plates of 27 photographs, 2 maps and chapter headings. Terracotta cloth with pictorial dustwrapper. xv+280pp. Born in 1910 into a high ranking Tibetan family, the author became the first Tibetan girl to be schooled abroad. The story of her life covers a very interesting period of Tibetan history from the old isolationist Tibet, through its tentative meetings with the west and the Chinese invasion and annexation.. ... more information

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8vo Collins 1937.. 1st edition. Frontispiece, 30 plates of 41 photographs and text illustrations. Blue cloth, spine faded at head, somewhat dusty in a pictorial dustwrapper with pices missing on spine. 332pp. ... more information

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8vo Collins 1964.. 1st edition. 12 plates of 20 photographs, maps on endpapers, and small bibliography. Brown cloth with pictorial dustwrapper. 252pp. A very good biography. ... more information

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8vo Little, Brown and Company, Boston 1929.. 2nd US edition. Frontispiece, 31 plates of 39 photographs, 2 maps on endpapers. Black cloth. xv+373pp. This book details the first part of Lattimore's journey from Peking to Leh in 1926. He travels the desert caravan route through Mongolia, the Jao Lu - the winding road, across the Gobi to Chinese Turkistan where he was joined by his wife in Chuguchak. ... more information

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8vo John Murray 1938.. 1st edition. Frontispiece, 14 plates of 20 photographs and cartoons. 1 map. Buff cloth with gilt vignette. vii+319pp. Jarvis was Administrator in Egypt from 1919-36 and his reminiscences are illustrated with contemporary political cartoons as well as photographs. ... more information

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8vo Eyre and Spottiswood 1967.. 1st edition. 16 plates of 23 photographs, map on endpapers, bibliography and notes. Blue cloth with slightly chipped pictorial dustwrapper. 390pp. The classic modern biography of Richard Burton. The tile is taken from a letter Burton wrote to Monckton Milnes in 1863 , 'Starting in a hollowed log of wood- some thousand miles up a river, with only the infinitesimal prospect of returning! I ask myself 'why' and the only echo is - 'damned fool...the devil d... more information

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8vo Rivington, Percival and Co. 1894.. 1st edition. Frontispiece, 13 plates, 16 text illustrations, 1 folding map and 1 folding route plan. Blue cloth, slightly water spotted and spine dulled. xvi+309pp. Setting out secretly from Ladakh but with the full knowledge of Simla's intelligence chief, Bower and his companion Thorold crossed the Chang Tang and headed in the direction of Lhasa. With them was Pundit Atma Ram who paced the whole of the trip in order to produce a map. They were eventually sto... more information

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8vo Richard Bentley 1863.. 1st edition. Colour frontispiece, title vignette, 15 plates (7 tinted) and 28 text illustrations. Handsome green contemporary calf gilt. xvi+385pp. A really beautiful copy. A journey in 1860 by two Army Officers on six months leave from Allahabad and heading to the hills. They visited Srinagar then crossed the Zoji la into Ladakh and down to Leh exploring the Indus valley and its monasteries and villages. An excellent early work on the area. With chapters on religion and hi... more information

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8vo Jonathan Cape 1951.. 1st edition. Coloured frontispiece, 24 plates of 27 photographs and 1 folding map. Red cloth slightly spotted. 317pp. A classic work. During the French war in Vietnam in 1950 Lewis journeyed through Indo-China. Travelling from Saigon, north to Dalat then up to Pleiku. He then goes into Cambodia, travelling up from Pnom Penh to Angor and around. Flying to Vientiane he travels through Laos to Luang Prabang. ... more information

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8vo John Murray 1961.. 1st edition. 16 plates of 28 photographs and 1 map. Green cloth. xii+297pp. The fourth volume of autobiography covering the war years, her work in Arabia and her mission to America. ... more information

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4to John Lane The Bodley Head 1921.. 1st edition. Colour frontispiece, title vignette, 27 plates (15 coloured ), 34 text illustrations and 1 small sketch map. Green cloth with cream buckram spine. Edges of boards rather rubbed. xii+124pp. Maxwell was sent by the Imperial War Museum to document the Mesopotamian campaign in the First World War. This book, he says, is not an official account but a 'series of impressions' of the country. ... more information

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