Eighteen hundred miles on a Burmese tat. Through Burmah, Siam, and the Eastern Shan states.

London, W.H. Allen & Co, 1888

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12mo; 14 pl. (some spotting passim).

Contemp. half shagreen, marbled paper boards, flat spine (spine rebacked, sl. rubbed, corners sl. bumped).

First edition of this travel account of Younghusband (1859-1944), a major-general in the British Indian Army, who also served in the Third Burmese War. Ill. with a fold. map and 13 pl., of which 1 fold., of views and various portraits of locals he encountered.
Ref. Cordier, Indosinica, 424.