Andre Migot Translated Peter Fleming (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Not relevant. Travel Book Club, London, no date (c. 1956?); 8vo, 150 x 220mm; pp 288; 38 photographs; red boards, spine a little faded but still a good copy; no dust wrapper. . . . . . Tibet was annexed by China in 1951, following the success of the Chinese Communist Party in defeating the Nationalists.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good + Hardback. Dust Jacket Condition: Good dj. Illustrated (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. Reprint. 303 pages. Black/white photos. Spine slightly sunned. A firm, straight book. Scan available.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First UK edition, first impression. Edge wear, chipping, creasing and some loss to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners and folds rubbed, spine slightly sunned, not price clipped (18s), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg copy for its age. 288pp, illustrated. André Migot (1892-1967), was a French doctor, traveller and writer. After the war he went to Indochina, from where in 1947 he made a journey alone through Eastern Tibet and China in order to research aspects of Tibetan Buddhism. During this journey he tried but failed to reach Lhasa disguised as a mendicant lama. As he could speak and write Tibetan, he was able to converse with the lamas, and was initiated into the rituals of one of the Buddhist sects. Traveller, writer and wartime special ops agent Peter Fleming (1907-71), was the elder brother of Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond. Jacket and photos by the author (illustrator).…