Sport and travel in the highlands of Tibet . With an introduction by Sir Francis Younghusband

Hayden, Henry, Sir, & Cesar Cosson

Published by Richard Cobden-Sanderson, London, 1927

About this Item

First edition, 8vo, pp. xvi, 262; 2 portraits and 85 illustrations largely from photographs on rectos and versos of 43 plates, plus a large folding color map in rear cover pocket; original black cloth lettered in gilt on spine; very good, sound, and clean. Ownership signature of L. L. Fermor on front free endpaper. Sir Lewis Leigh Fermor, OBE, FRS (1880-1954), was a British chemist and geologist and the first president of the Indian National Science Academy and a director of the Geological Survey of India (1930-1935). "Hayden, a member of the Younghusband Mission to Tibet in 1904 as a geologist, started from Darjeeling to Lhasa in 1922 with his friend Cosson. Then they explored Tibet; the first to the North-West, i. e. the Great Central Plateau for two and a half months, and the second to the South-East into the Tsangpo and its tributaries for one month" (Yakushi H152). Yakushi H152.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sport and travel in the highlands of Tibet . With an introduction by Sir Francis Younghusband
• Publisher: Richard Cobden-Sanderson, London
• Publication Date: 1927
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Seller catalogs:
  • Travel
  • Asia
  • Sports and Sporting
  • Tibet