The Pamirs; being A Narrative of a Year's Expedition on Horseback and on Foot through Kashmir, Western Tibet, Chinese Tartary, and Russian Central Asia

Dunmore, the Earl of

Edité par John Murray, London, 1893

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Ex-library, Dunedin Public Library. Bindings shaken. Gutters split at hinges. Text block separating from covers at front hinge on Volume One. Complete with all plates and maps. Circular library blind-stamp to corner of every plate. Library card pocket and date due slip on front endpapers. Library rubber stamp on title pages. Black mark with library call number in white at tail of spine on each volume. ; Volume One: xx, 360 pages + frontispiece + 17 plates + 1 colour folding map at rear. 21 in-text illustrations. Volume Two: x, [2], 352 pages + frontispiece (map) + 4plates + 2 colour folding maps at rear. 5 in-text illustrations. Both volumes stated "Second Edition", 1893. Blue-grey moire cloth with silver buddha illustrations on front board, and silver lettering in English and Tibetan characters on front board. Page dimensions: 214 x 131mm. The text includes some notes on the Tibetan culture, the Tibetan Buddhist religion and the Gelugpa sect. The illustrations include Tibetan Buddhist Chortens near, Leh, Ladakh, an area visited by the author. "May 31st - Bought six more ponies at an average of 43 rs. each. I had about twenty to choose from, but they were mostly too small"- Volume 1, page 107. "From there we were taken into the Chhos Khang, or sacred room, sometimes called the book-room, as the Buddhist holy books are all kept there. This room would answer to a chapel in any Christian monastery, for it is in here they assemble to read their Scriptures, and more often the writings of some Lama than the words of Buddha. In the centre of this room was a gaudily painted throne, on which sits the incarnation, and on his right is another highly decorated pedastal, on which sits a gilded image of Buddha"- Volume 1, page 133-134. "The whole configuration of the country has undergone a complete change since we crossed the Karakoram pass. Instead of being shut into nullahs and gorges and deep gullies, and walled in by the precipitous rocks of giant snow-clad mountains, we are now in an open country of vast plains and distant hills and the temperature has altered with the scenery"- Volume One, page 209.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Pamirs; being A Narrative of a Year's Expedition on Horseback and on Foot through Kashmir, Western Tibet, Chinese Tartary, and Russian Central Asia
• Éditeur: John Murray, London
• Date de parution: 1893
• Reliure: Hardcover
• État de l'article: Fair
• État de la jaquette: No Dust Jacket