Turkestan Alive (Basil Davidson), New Plymouth in New Plymouth, Taranaki for sale

Ex-library. Library card pocket and date due slip. Large adhesive tape repairs to dust wrapper. Rear flap of dust wrapper pasted down to rear endpaper. Misfolds to the folding map. Dust wrapper is price-clipped. ; 255 pages + colour frontispiece + b&w plates + folding map at rear. Purple-maroon cloth boards with decoration on front board and spine. Page dimensions: 200 x 131mm."His book is mainly the story of meetings with hundreds of people in this once'dead heart'of Asia. It vividly presents the landscape and the figures in it, and records in a lively way the unusual incidnts of an unprecedented journey. The author's photographs are of exceptional interest and beauty."- from dust wrapper blurb. Contents: The Road to Turfan; Beyond the North Wind; Urumchi; To the Walls of Karakhoja; The Years Between; Red Tartary; Kashgar; Oases of the South; Beneath the Roof of the World; In the Mountains of Heaven; The Dragons of Lord Sheh; Leaving Hami; Appendix: Sinkiang Population Figures; Books and References; Index. ; Ex-Library; 8vo 8"- 9"tall
Author
Basil Davidson
Title
Turkestan Alive
Publisher name
Jonathan Cape (1957), London
Shipping time
2 - 5 days
Publication year
1957
Edition
First edition
Binding type
Hard cover
Listing condition
Used
Item condition
Good
Vendor name
Renaissance Books
Vendor rating
Key words
Tibet China Turkestan
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