MOUNTAINS OF HEAVEN: TRAVEL IN THE TIAN SHAN MOUNTAINS 1913 Charles Howard-Bury 1990 1st UK ed Hardcover DJ Fine (Howard-Bury, Charles and Marian Keaney)

	Item #: BK404A-948 MOUNTAINS OF HEAVEN: TRAVEL IN THE TIAN SHAN MOUNTAINS 1913 Charles Howard-Bury 1990 1st UK ed Hardcover DJ Fine By Howard-Bury, Charles and Marian Keaney Price: $35.00 List Price: $40.00 You Save $5.00 (12%) Add to wish list Click Here For Related Selections
Detailed Product Description
London, 1990, 1st UK edition. 176 pp, 19 photos. Grey cloth hardcover with dust jacket. Fine. Howard-Bury, who was later to lead the first Everest expedition of 1921, led this early exploratory expedition to the Tian Shan in 1913. Half comprised of Charles Howard-Bury's own edited version of his travel journals, with the remainder of the editing carried out by Marian Keane. Charles Howard-Bury comes across as an explorer-adventurer but one who is interested in the people, culture and wild life of the region; particularly the huntin', shootin' and fishin' opportunities on offer. His outbound journey took him from London to Russian Omsk, on a 'cruise' along the river Irtish to Semipalatinsk and via the post roads of Siberia and the steppe, crossing from the Russian side to the Chinese side of the Tian Shan. He returned to London by way of Russian Turkestan and the Silk Road, taking in Tashkent, Samarkand (fascinating accounts of the Registan, Bibi Khanum mosque and Shah Zinda mausoleum) and Bokhara before crossing the Caspian, the Caucasus and finally the Black Sea before taking the train home from Constantinople. He's in Central Asia at a tipping point. The British Empire is still going strong to the south, the pre-revolutionary Russian Tsars have expanded into the 'Stans of Central Asia and the nomadic Kazakh and Kyrgyz inhabitants of the steppe are shifting eastwards, into modern day Xinjiang only a year after the demise of the Qing dynasty and the province acceding in name to the Republic of China.
Other Items You Might Like
Similar Items Available Items From This Author Items From This Category THE CENTRAL TIAN-SHAN MOUNTAINS 1902-1903 Dr. Gottfried Merzbacher 1905 1st ed Near Fine *By: Merzbacher, Dr. Gottfried* Price $495.00 ~ Regular $2000.00, You Save $1505.00 (75%) *- Item # OP648-495* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart CONQUERING THE CELESTIAL MOUNTAINS [Peak Pobeda Tian Shan] Yeveny Simonov 1958 1st edition Softcover Fine *By: Simonov, Yevgeny* Price $115.00 ~ Regular $250.00, You Save $135.00 (54%) *- Item # OP650AB-385* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart CENTRAL TIAN-SHAN MOUNTAINS 1902-1903 Dr. Gottfried Merzbacher 1905 1st US edition Hardcover Fine *By: Merzbacher, Gottfried.* Price $750.00 *- Item # OP648AB-777* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart A WINDOW TO HEAVEN: THE FIRST ASCENT OF DENALI: AMERICA'S WILDEST PEAK Patrick Dean 2021 1st ed New Hardcover DJ *By: Dean, Patrick* Price $19.95 ~ Regular $29.95, You Save $10.00 (33%) *- Item # BK4371A-965* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart MOUNTAINS OF THE MIDDLE KINGDOM: EXPLORING THE HIGH PEAKS OF CHINA AND TIBET Galen Rowell 1983 1st ed Hardcover DJ Fine [Not Signed] *By: Rowell, Galen* Price $19.95 ~ Regular $195.00, You Save $175.05 (90%) *- Item # OP1334A-962p* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart TRAIL AND TIMBERLINE 1962 - 1998 As Available Not a Set $5 each *By: Colorado Mountain Club* Price $5.00 ~ Regular $10.00, You Save $5.00 (50%) *- Item # JR727A-966* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 1986 August David Breashears Climbs Pik Pobedy Tian Shan Russia *By: National Geographic Magazine 1986 August* Price $9.99 ~ Regular $20.00, You Save $10.01 (50%) *- Item # NG8608-127* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart NEW! THE HUNT FOR MOUNT EVEREST Craig Storti 2021 1st ed Hardcover New *By: Storti, Craig* Price $29.95 *- Item # BK4614-943* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart ANTARCTICA: BOTH HEAVEN AND HELL 1991 1st ed Hardcover DJ Fine SIGNED by Reinhold Messner *By: Messner, Reinhold* Price $125.00 ~ Regular $150.00, You Save $25.00 (17%) *- Item # BK1044-950* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart CENTRAL TIEN SHAN MAP AND GUIDE 1:150,000 1996 Fine 2 Copies Available *By: Wielochowski, Andrew* Price $19.95 *- Item # MP271-9572* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart Sorry, we were unable find any similar items available by this author. NEW! HIGH RISK: CLIMBING TO EXTINCTION Brian Hall 2022 1st UK ed Hardcover Fine *By: Hall, Brian* Price $39.95 *- Item # BK5512-949* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart SCOTLAND MAP: NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN PARTS SET HAND COLORED LARGE c. 1850 Original (Not a modern copy) Near Fine *By: Antiquarian Maps and Charts* Price $49.99 ~ Regular $125.00, You Save $75.01 (60%) *- Item # RM57-954p* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart BIG WALL CLIMBING Doug Scott 1974 1st US ed Hardcover DJ Near Fine *By: Scott, Doug* Price $19.99 ~ Regular $65.00, You Save $45.01 (69%) *- Item # OP210-207* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart CLIMBING IN BRITAIN J.E.Q. Barford 1947 Paperback Near Fine *By: Barford, J.E.Q.* Price $4.99 ~ Regular $20.00, You Save $15.01 (75%) *- Item # GB7309-954* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart MENLOVE: THE LIFE OF JOHN MENLOVE EDWARDS Jim Perrin 2006 Softcover Fine 2 Copies Available Winner of the Boardman Tasker Prize *By: Perrin, Jim* Price $4.95 ~ Regular $24.95, You Save $20.00 (80%) *- Item # BK1177-1102* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart THE CLIMBER'S POCKET BOOK Lionel West 1907 1st ed Fine Neate says, ''The first British manual on crag rescue.'' *By: West, Lionel* Price $150.00 *- Item # OP4677-107* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart A SNOW GOOSE & OTHER UTOPIAN FICTIONS Jim Perrin 2013 1st ed New Paperback *By: Perrin, Jim* Price $14.95 ~ Regular $30.00, You Save $15.05 (50%) *- Item # BK90929-958* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart SIERRA CLUB BULLETIN VOL. XXI NO. 1 February 1936 Softcover Near Fine *By: Sierra Club* Price $5.00 ~ Regular $10.00, You Save $5.00 (50%) *- Item # JR463-136* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart OVER THE SEA TO DEATH: A MISS PINK CLIMBING NOVEL Gwen Moffat 1976 1st US ed Hardcover DJ Near Fine-Fine *By: Moffat, Gwen* Price $9.99 ~ Regular $30.00, You Save $20.01 (67%) *- Item # OP2275-939* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart GOING HIGH: THE STORY OF MAN AND ALTITUDE Charles Houston 1980 1st ed Softcover Fine 2 Copies Available *By: Houston, Charles* Price $9.99 ~ Regular $16.00, You Save $6.01 (38%) *- Item # OP685B-9532* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart