A Person from England and other Travellers
MACLEAN, Fitzroy
BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Published: Jonathan Cape, [1958]
Stock code: 51959
Price: £42.00
8vo., First Edition, with plates, illustrations and double-page map in the text, and pictorial endpapers; blur cloth, gilt back, top faintly dust-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, very lightly browned dustwrapper.
The author recounts the story of travellers to the legendary cities of Turkestan - Merv, Khiva, Bokhara and Samarkand - and the inevitable beginning of the 'Great Game'. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.