Lieut. Brooke made two journeys through China and Tibet, starting out on the first from Shanghai in August, 1906 and returning in October of the following year having crossed Tibet. On his second journey he was joined by C.H. Meares (who went on to accompany Capt. Scott on the British Antarctic Expedition) and the two men spent a year travelling through Western Sechuan and Eastern Tibet until Christmas Eve of 1908 when Brooke was murdered by the 'Lolos' while in Szechuan. Pictorial cover. This copy INSCRIBED in pencil on the half title page, 'To Mr. Rosenberg with the author's compliments.' Near Fine and bright.