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    By Captain Frank E. Younghusband
    London   John Murray
    9.5" by 6.5" xvii, [3], 409pp
    An illustrated travel work by Frank Younghusband, following his decade long exploration of Asia in the late nineteenth century.
    By Captain Frank E. Younghusband

    1896 The Heart of a Continent: A Narrative of Travels in Manchuria, Across the Gobi Desert, Through the Himalayas, the Pamirs, and Chitral, 1884-1894

    London   John Murray
    9.5" by 6.5" xvii, [3], 409pp
    An illustrated travel work by Frank Younghusband, following his decade long exploration of Asia in the late nineteenth century.
    £350.00
    : 1kgs / : 889P3
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    Description

    Folding Maps, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

    The third edition, published in the same year as the first. 

    Francis Younghusband's vivid travel account of his time spent exploring Asia from 1884 to 1894.

    In this volume, Younghusband recounts his explorations of Manchuria, the Gobi Desert, the Himalayas, the Pamirs, and Chitral, with a lively commentary on the scenery and its people. 

    Later in life, Younghusband led the 1904 British expedition to Tibet. 

    Illustrated with a frontispiece, one folding map to the pocket to the rear, three folding maps, and seventeen plates.

    Collated, complete.

    Condition

    In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, smart. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Very light rubbing to the joints and extremities. A few light marks to the boards. Front hinge is starting but firm. Spots to the endpapers, and a small tide mark to the rear endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean, with only the occasional scattered spot. Frontispiece is detached but present.

    Very Good

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