Author: DE CARLE SOWERBY, ARTHUR:
Title: Sport and Science on the Sino-Mongolian Frontier. London, Andrew Melrose, 1918.
Description: . Pp. xvi, 295. With front portrait and seventeen plates with many photos. Partly unopened. Publisher's pictorial cloth. First edition. A great copy.Arthur de Carle Sowerby (1885-1954) was a British naturalist, explorer and writer who spent many years in China. He joined several expeditions exploring the terrain and collecting animal specimens in the Manchurian and Sino-Mongolian borderland before settling in Shanghai in 1923. "The work carried out on these explorations was in the nature of scientific and geographical research, including the collection of biological specimen, the making of geological notes, the carrying out of compass traverses, and the general investigation into the lives, customs and conditions of natives". (introduction). Scarce, especially in the original cloth binding.

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