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| GOMPERTZ, M.L.A. (AKA "GANPAT") The Road to Lamaland: Impressions of a Journey to Western Tibet by "Ganpat" New York, George H. Doran. First American edition. n.d. [1926]. x, 246pp, 27 photo illustrations. 8vo/23cm. Blind stamp decorated maroon cloth gilt, rubbed at extremities, small chip head of back joint, nick on bottom of back board, internally fine. Martin Louis Alan Gompertz (1886- ), a British Indian Army officer, was called "Ganpat" (the name of an elephant-headed Indian deity) by his men as the closest they could get to pronouncing his name. He was an observant writer and wrote a number of Himalayan-oriented travel books, some humorous. Ladakh was also called "Lesser Tibet" and occasionally, with the adjacent Tibetan- speaking area of Baltistan to the north, "Little Tibet". The publication date of this work is sometimes given as 1916, e.g. Yakushi G78, but the preponderant library cataloguing (i.e. British Library, LC and NYPL) is 1926. He wrote another book about "the topsy-turvy land" of Ladakh in 1928. See also Warikoo 358. USD 67.00 [Appr.: EURO 44.75 | £UK 40.5 | JP¥ 5913] Book number: 001745 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books. | ||
| HARVEY, ANDREW A Journey in Ladakh Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company. 1984. Reprint (1983). ix, 236pp, map, 8vo/Paper, light wear, small label removal mark at tail of spine, small stain head of back panel and rear fep, otherwise clean, tight and very good. Andrew Harvey is a British writer born in India in 1952. He has a special interest in the practice of Buddhism. Allan p.54. USD 13.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.75 | £UK 8 | JP¥ 1147] Book number: 003613 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books. | ||
| HUTCHISON, G. EVELYN The Clear Mirror: A Pattern of Life in Goa and Indian Tibet Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. 1936. First Edition. xi, 171pp, 13 plates, index. Green cloth, rubbed at extremities, small chip at tail of spine, ex-library marks, but otherwise internally clean and tight. The author was a member of the Yale North India Expedition and in addition to his scientific observations, gives descriptions of Tibetan dances in Ladakh. The geographer O H K Spate in his India and Pakistan, listed this in his biblbiography as ..one of three remarkable books" on the area.."A mannered but beautiful style, an extraordinary range of allusion and careful scientific observation combine to form a strange but wholly satisfactory work of art." (p 391). Also Yakushi H282. Becoming scarce. USD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 20.25 | £UK 18.25 | JP¥ 2648] Book number: 001678 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books. | ||
| MERRICK, HENRIETTA SANDS In the World's Attic. Introduction by Sir Francis Younghusband New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1931. Ill.: A.E. Berry. xxii, 259pp, photographic endpapers, 62 photographic illustrations (some full page) plus captioned tissue-protected color frontispiece and 3 color wash prints by Mrs. A.E. Berry, folding route map, index. Tall 8vo/24cm. Original red cloth gilt, spine ends on edge of fraying, otherwise only slightly rubbed extremities, otherwise internally clean, tight and very good. Includes 2 copies of printed "With the Compliments of the Author" slip (1 loose, 1 pasted on ffep). Basically a 250 mile trip to the then severely restricted area of Ladakh and back on horseback from Srinagar. The veteran explorer Younghusband is surprisingly enthusiastic for this American society woman's account: "she has made the people live in her pages..we can see them exactly..as they were when I knew them forty years ago." and, "she has shown that the Himalaya is accessible even to the town-bred and inexperienced if only they have the pluck and enterprise." Warikoo 204; Yakushi (1984 edition) M155. USD 21.00 [Appr.: EURO 14.25 | £UK 12.75 | JP¥ 1853] Book number: 002089 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books. | ||
| BEDI, RAJESH AND RAMESH Ladakh:the Trans-Himalayan Kingdom New Delhi, Roli Books International. 1981. First Edition. 192pp, 182 color illustrations from photographs (many full page), list of illustrations, introduction, the people, Ladakhi culture, land of gompas, nature, glossry. 4to/29cm. Black cloth gilt, very light wear, in protected dj. NF/NF. Stunning photographs by Rajesh Bedi; authoritative text by Dr. Ramesh Bedi, a widely published Indian botanist. Dogra p.199; Taylor 1. USD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 20.25 | £UK 18.25 | JP¥ 2648] Book number: 004346 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books. |
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