Author: KNIGHT Edward Frederick
Title: Where Three Empires Meet. A Narrative of Recent Travel in Kashmir, Western Tibet, Gilgit and the adjoining Countries. Third Edition. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE THIRD EDITION
Description: Longmans Green & Co.,, 1893. 8vo., Third Edition, with frontispiece, 26 plates and numerous illustrations in the text, half-title lightly spotted, neat contemporaryinscription on half-title; original green cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in red, black endpapers, uncut, backstrip very slightly dulled else a remarkably bright, fresh, crisp copy. With 24pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. The empires concerned are those of Great Britain, Russia and China. After Kashmir, which he visited with Walter Lawrence, describing 'much-needed reforms', he travelled through Ladak[h] with St. Clair Bower, reaching Gilgit in time to take part in Durand's expedition against the Hunza-Nagars. As always with Knight, a descriptive, facsinating and wide-ranging memoir. First published in 1893, the work was an immediate success, achieving a third edition in the same year. Yakushi K102 (recording the first edition).

Keywords: travel, far east, india, kashmir, gilgit, tibet, knight, edward knight


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