Sport and politics under an eastern sky. By the Earl of Ronaldshay

Published by William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh & London, 1902

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First edition, 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 413, [1]; frontispiece portrait, 13 full-page illustrations, 52 illustrations in the text, large folding map printed in color at the back, plus one other folding map also printed in color; fore-margin of p. xv-xvi roughly opened, else a very good, sound and clean copy in original pictorial green cloth stamped in gilt and white on upper cover, and in gilt on spine. "The author travelled from Srinagar to Zoji La, Skardo, Kapalu, Dras, Zoji La, and [back to] Shrinigar in 1899; and then from Shrinigar to Gurais, Dorikum La, north side of Nanga Parbat, Chilas, and Shrinigar in 1899-1900. The first part of this book deals with those sporting adventure in Kashmir, Ladakh, and Baltistan. The second part with the author's journey from India to London through eastern Persia" (Yakushi). Czech, Asia, p. 173-74; Yakushi R325.

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Title
Sport and politics under an eastern sky. By the Earl of Ronaldshay
Author
Zetland, Lawrence John Lumley Dundas, Earl of Ronaldshay
Publisher
William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh & London
Publication year
1902
Edition
First Edition.
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Asia, Mountaineering, Sports and Sporting

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