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GREAT FIGURES OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY HIMALAYAN EXPLORATION Kenneth Mason 1956 Softcover Very Good
By Mason, Kenneth
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England, Royal Central Asian Society, 1955. 9 pp, maps. Extract article from Royal Central Asian Society Journal with homemade cover. Very Good.
Mason's lecture to the Royal Asian Society on March 28, 1956. He had recently published his seminal work on the Himalaya, "The Abode of Snow".
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