TO THE ALPS OF CHINESE TIBET: AN ACCOUNT OF A JOURNEY OF EXPLORATION UP TO AND AMONG THE SNOW-CLAD MOUNTAINS OF THE TIBETAN FRONTIER. Gregory 1923 1st UK edition (Gregory, J.W. )

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TO THE ALPS OF CHINESE TIBET: AN ACCOUNT OF A JOURNEY OF EXPLORATION UP TO AND AMONG THE SNOW-CLAD MOUNTAINS OF THE TIBETAN FRONTIER. Gregory 1923 1st UK edition
By Gregory, J.W.
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London, 1923, 1st edition. 26 plates, 3 maps. An account of four months travel in 1922 in the area of Minya Konka, on the western border of China and Eastern Tibet. From the website of The Geological Society of London: 'John Walter Gregory (1864-1932) was an intrepid Scottish explorer, stratigrapher, invertebrate palaeontologist and geomorphologist who undertook a number of adventures to India, Spitzbergen, Australia and Africa and the Himalayas. He was the first professor at the University of Melbourne, where he travelled to the 'Dead Heart' (his term) of the continent. From Glasgow University he mounted expeditions to Libya, Angola, India and the East African Rift Valley, as well as Chinese Tibet. He wrote over 300 papers on a bewilderingly wide variety of geological topics.'. Bright and Fine.

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