Buddhists and Glaciers of Western Tibet. With 32 Plates and Map. by DAINELLI, Gioto - 1934

New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1934. First American edition. Octavo. xiii, [1], 304 pp. plus the folding map at rear and the 32 full page photographic illustrations. Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt spine lettering, original dust jack (a tiny bit of edge wear to jacket extremities. A very handsome copy; clean tight and in a great jacket.From the blurb; "Professor Dainelli's book not only constitutes an absorbing record of a journey through large tracts of the Karakoram, most of them unexplored, , but also gives an insight into the life of the inhabitants of Western Tibet, both of the peasants and lamas and merchants, in the villages and monasteries where he lived." Giotto Dainelli was an Italian geographer, geologist, paleontologist, traveler and writer. Dainelli traveled in Eritrea, Africa, and to the Himalayas. He was a supporter of Italian fascism but was not a signatory of the Manifesto of Race. n 1913-1914 he traveled to the Karakoram and Himalayas along with the expedition headed by Filippo De Filippi. Other members of this expedition included Giorgio Abetti, Nello Venturi Ginori, Camillo Alessandri, Lieutenant Alberto Alessio, engineer John Alfred Spranger, Major Henry Wood of the Survey of India along with surveyors Janma Prasad and Shib Lal, alpine guide Joseph Petigax, and Lieutenant Cesare Antilli.