Through the heart of Asia over the Pamir to India ... with 250 illustrations by Albert Pepin. Translated from the French by C. B. Pitman
London: Chapman & Hall, 1889. First edition in English, 2 volumes, large 8vo, pp. xxii, 281; x, 255, [1], 8 (ads); vignette title pages, folding map printed in color, numerous wood-engraved illustrations throughout, a number of them full-page; a scuff mark at the top of the spine of volume II, and a small dampstain on the upper cover of the same volume, else a very good, sound and clean set in original pictorial blue cloth stamped in gilt and white. Wikipedia notes that in 1886, Bonvalot set out for Russian Central Asia. He departed from Tashkent in 1886 and traveled up to the border with Afghanistan. During the winter season, the expedition remained in Samarkand and sought a way to cross the Pamir Mountains from north to south and reach China. In 1887 they crossed through Kyrgyz territory in the Alai Mountains. He crossed the Pamirs, Chitral, where he was detained for more than a month, and the Karakoram, until he reached Kashmir. He was rewarded for this expedition by the Société de Géographie in Paris. Yakushi B477b. Item #67517
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