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First edition, 8vo, pp. xvi, 343, [1]; gravure portrait frontispiece, 2 folding color maps, 76 illustrations from photographs in the text (some full-page); original pictorial green cloth stamped in white, black, blue and gilt on upper cover and spine; light soiling and wear, but a very good, sound, and clean copy. "This book composed largely from the diaries of Jack W. Brooke. His latest ideal was the determination of the Brahmaputra question. His first venture was by the well-known route from Koko Nor over the Tangla to Tibet in 1906-07, in company with Mr. Ridly. On his second journey he left Shanghai in Dec. 1907, and he lost his life at the hands of the Lolos on Dec. 8, 1908" (Yakushi). They "hunted wild boar and goral in Wassu province, then proceeded down the Min River in search of penyang (blue sheep) but were unable to procure one. In the Taokwan valley, serows were bagged. Meares journeyed into Changmin territory where he collected a takin. It was during a trip to Lololand that Brooke was murdered, his body eventually recovered by Fergusson" (Czech). Before this fate, Brooke was granted an audience with Thubten Gyatso, the thirteenth Dalai Lama of Tibet, "his first audience, I believe, with an Englishman" (p.6). Czech, Asian Big Game Hunting, 77. Yakushi F43.
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