Innermost Asia. Travel & sport in the Pamirs
[Camden, S.C.]: John Culler & Sons, 1994. Edition limited to 500 copies (this, no. 255); 8vo, pp. [15], viii-xviii, 354, [2]; facsimile edition of the original edition of 1900, 29 plates and 4 (of 5) maps, without the large color folding map (as issued), and 85 text illustrations; original maroon leather stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine; fine copy in glassine jacket and publisher's slipcase. Issued in the publisher's Asian Series. A "narrative of the author's travel to Taghdumbash Pamir, Kashgar, and the Tien Shan area from Gilgit, with H.H.P. Deasy in part, in 1897-98." From the preface: "My original object in visiting the Pamir region of Central Asia was that of the sportsman, and I had no idea of either troubling myself with inquiries into the social and political conditions of the people, or of recording my travels in a book. The opportunities for observation afforded by my close intercourse with the people, the acquaintances I made among the Russian and Chinese officials, and my enforced detention at Kala-i-Wamar and Fort Charog, served to place me in an altogether exceptional position in regard to the status quo political and strategic at present existing in Innermost Asia, and as in the course of my journeys I visited a considerable stretch of country which has never before been seen by and Englishman and am ... the only European, other than Russian, who has traversed the banks of the Oxus in the regions of Roshand and Shighnan, I feel that it is my duty to publish the results of my experiences..." The London edition was published the same year. Yakushi C306 for the 1900 London edition. Item #71379
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