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Mar 15, 2019
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YOUNGHUSBAND, Francis Edward, Sir (1884-1894). The Heart of a Continent: A Narrative of Travels in Manchuria, Across the Gobi Desert, T
8vo. With frontispiece, 4 folding maps (one folding in rear cover pocket) & 17 photographic plates. (Map slightly browned with short splits to a few folds.) Original publisher's pictorial green cloth gilt. Provenance: Charles S. Landers (bookplate).FIRST EDITION, American issue (printed & bound in England for U.S. distribution). Account of Younghusband's ten-year exploration of Central Asia concluding with his epic race against Col. M. S. Bell from Peking to Kashmir. He became the first European to cross the Gobi. Yakushi (1994) Y27a.