Author: Younghusband, Francis.
Title: THE HEART OF A CONTINENT. With an Introduction by Peter Hopkirk.
Description: OUP, 1986. Reprint. xii + [xx] + 409pp. + [i]. 18 plates, 4 folding maps including 1 in pocket at rear. Some very light marginal browning, booksellers label to upper leading corner of lower f.e.p., spine very lightly faded and sl. bumped, in sl. rubbed d/w. faded to spine. ¶ Younghusband undertook his first expedition to Central Asia in 1898, crossing the Muztagh, he later went to Tibet in 1902 with the mission to defeat Russian propoganda, he later travelled much in Turkestan, China, India and South Africa.

Keywords: VOYAGES AND TRAVEL; CENTRAL ASIA


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