The Heart of a Continent. A Narrative of Travels in Manchuria, across the Gobi Desert; through the Himalayas, the Pamirs, and Chitral, 1884-1894
YOUNGHUSBAND, Captain Frank E. [Francis]
[Preface by the Author. Notice by John Murray.] Second Edition.
BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE THIRD EDITION
Published: John Murray, 1896
Stock code: 50550
Price: £280.00
8vo., Second Edition, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present), 17 plates, 3 folding maps (2 coloured; one coloured in outline), and large folding coloured map (a few tears at folds) in pocket at end; green cloth, upper board framed, blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt back, patterned endpapers, uncut, covers mildly rubbed and faded (but all gilt wholly legible), a bright, crisp copy.
Published in the same year as the first edition. The author's fourth book, and the one which placed him at the forefont of Himalayan exploration of the period. Murray's Notice, noting that the book was seen through the press ny him in Younghusband's unforeseen absence, provides a crisp summation of the contents. Yakushi Y27a (recording the first edition). SCARCE.