Author: Landor, A. Henry Savage.
Title: ACROSS COVETED LANDS. Or a Journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta, Overland.
Description: Macmillan and Co., 1902. 1st Ed. 2 vols. vii + 461pp. + viii + 459pp. 175 ills. diagrams plans and maps including 2 folding. Light browning, paper split to firm hinges, original gilt red lettered cloth, sl. soiling, spines faded and bumped. ¶ (Arnold) Henry Savage Landor (1867–1924), explorer and artist. The much travelled Savage Landor journeyed from Tehran in Persia across the contested borderlands between Baluchistan and Afghanistan to Quetta (in modern Pakistan). En route he meets Persian wrestlers, the governors of Isfahan and Kerman, Baluchis and other local peoples.

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