Titles starting with G from The Traveller's Bookshelf

8vo Commercial Press, Peshawar 1913.. Black cloth backed blue boards, a little worn and rubbed on edges. cxlviii. Some faint library stamps. Statistics covering the weather, population, agriculture, wages and prices, justice, education and health. ... more information

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8vo Burns & Oates 1962.. 1st English edition. Frontispiece, 8 illustrations, bibliography and map on endpapers. Red cloth with pictorial dustwrapper. vi+389pp. An excellent history of these very early contacts of westerners with China. The stories of the 16th and 17th Jesuit Missionaries such as Malleo Ricci and Adam von Bell. ... more information

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8vo Hodder and Stoughton 1944.. 7th impression. Colour frontispiece, 50 plates (2 coloured) & 2 maps (1 folding). Blue cloth, faded especially on spine. 301pp. Signed by Mildred Cable on title ' with our love and gratitude July 14 1945.' An excellent book about the great desert by these intrepid missionaries. Having spent a number of years within the wall, in 1926 the 'trio' felt that their work lay in the vastness of Chinese Turkistan and it is here they spent the next 15 years.... more information

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8vo C Kegan Paul 1878.. 2nd edition. 1 folding map and text illustrations. Red decorative cloth, recased with original spine laid down. Bookplate of collector R M Burrell. xvi+398pp. The book describes a reconnaissance trip into northwest Arabia where native tales abounded of ruined cities and abandoned mines. Burton was lured there by the promise of gold but though they found some ancient diggings, the samples brought back yielded only minute traces of the precious metal. ... more information

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8vo Constable & Co. 1934.. 1st edition. 10 plates. Raspberry cloth, spine a little faded . Slight spotting on edges and a few early leaves. xi+308pp. The sister of Harry de Windt, Margaret married Charles Brooke, the 2nd Rajah of Sarawak who had succeeded his uncle in 1868, in 1869. Her book is an interesting account of life in Sarawak. ... more information

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8vo Edward Arnold 1905.. 1st edition. Frontispiece, 31 plates of 56 photographs and 2 folding maps. Contemporary green half calf, with slight foxing on endpapers. xii+324pp. After travelling in Zanskar, Lahaul, Baltistan, Ladakh and the Changchenmo valley, Rawlings gained permission to explore western and central Tibet from Leh in 1903, during which he mapped a great deal of unexplored land. Back in Peshawar in September 1903, he was attached to the Younghusband Mission which crossed into Tibet in Dec... more information

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8vo John Murray 1860.. 1st edition. Frontispiece, title vignette, 10 plates, 15 text illustration and 2 folding maps (1 coloured and with small closed tear). Decorative brown cloth with gilt vignette, edges rubbed. Rebacked with original spine laid down. xiv+435pp Tristram had originally gone to spend the winter in Algiers for his health but became entranced by the desert. The next winter he returned to spend his time travellling in mostly unknown parts of the Sahara. He got as far south as Waregla.... more information

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8vo John Lane, The Bodley Head 1928.. 1st edition. Frontispiece, 34 plates of 68 photographs, 1 folding map and bibliography. Green cloth with gilt vignette on front board. xxxvii+282pp. The bulk of the material was collected whilst the authors were on recruiting duty for the Gurkha rifles. They were thus permitted to travel to the remoter areas of the country and to record the people's customs. The book has a foreword by Brigadier General Bruce. Following a chapter on the history of Nepal it go... more information

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