Author: MENON, K.P.S.
Title: Delhi-Chungking - A Travel Diary. Foreword by Jawaharlal Nehru.
Description: Geoffrey Cumberlege / Oxford University Press, 1947. 22.5 x 14.5 cm. viii,[4],257 pp. Original blue cloth with dustjacket. With 2 folding maps in rear-pocket, and 19 b/w illustrations on plates. - In 1944 India's diplomatic representative in China made an overland journey by horse, yak, foot, station wagon and aeroplane to Chungking. This is the diary of his 125-day pilgrimage - a diary not meant for publication, in which we can comfortably enjoy the fatigues of crossing the Roof of the World [...] - Flap .- K.P.S. Menon (1898-1982), was also the first independent Foreign Secretary - serving from 1948 to 1952 - of India. - A very good copy with unclipped dustjacket. - tsjoengking - chongqing

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