The Desert Road to Turkestan
Rare and modern books
Lattimore Owen
Boston, Little, Brown, and Company, 1929,,
The Desert Road to Turkestan
Rare and modern books
Lattimore Owen
Boston, Little, Brown, and Company, 1929,,
110.00 €
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Details
- Author
- Lattimore Owen
- Publishers
- Boston, Little, Brown, and Company, 1929,
- Keyword
- Central Asia
- Binding description
- H
- Dust jacket
- False
- State of preservation
- Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Inscribed
- False
- First edition
- False
Description
First American edition. 8vo [23 x 15 cm]; xv, 373 pp, frontis, numerous other illus from photos, endpaper maps with route in red, appendix on details of route, index. orig cloth, very good clean copy owner's signature on free fep. An account of author's 1926 and 1927 travels on a 1,600 mile route, the Jao Lu, following the caravan trails through Mongolia from China to Chinese Turkestan.
