Tibetan Trek
by Kaulback, Ronald
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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London, Greater London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1937. Third edition (and First in this form]. 12mo, pp 319, not illustrated, a little foxing to the early pages and the last, and to the fore-edge, a neat inscription on the front endpaper, grey cloth slightly worn, the spine age-toned and with a bleached mark. [Ronald John Henry Kaulback (1909 - 1995) was a British explorer, botanist and geographer. After studying at the University of Cambridge and learning surveying at the Royal Geographical Society he accompanied Frank Kingdon-Ward on an expedition to Tibet, setting sail from Marseilles on 29th January 1933 and arriving in Bombay on 15th February. For political reasons Kaulback was forbidden to continue on the second part of that journey. So he, Brooks Carrington and some others set out on a route by Fort Hertz and Burma which included crossing the Diphuk La and after travelling at the worst season reached Fort Hertz.]. Third edition. Cloth. Fair.
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- Bookseller
- Mike Park Ltd (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 020618
- Title
- Tibetan Trek
- Author
- Kaulback, Ronald
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Edition
- Third edition
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1937
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel; Planthunting;
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Glossary
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- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...