From Tonkin to India by the Sources of the Irawadi January '95 - January '96. Translated by Hamlet Bent. Illustrated by G. Vuillier.
Author:
D''Orleans, Prince Henry.
Year:
1898
Edition:
1st English edn
Publisher:
Methuen & Co
Summary:
xii - 467pp. Large 8vo, top edge gilt frontispiece, title-vignette, and numerous full page and text illustrations, and folding coloured map. Publishers' green cloth gilt title and native vignette to the upper cover gilt title to the spine with vignette" passing a mule over the Mekong". A very good clean copy, An expedition from Hanoi to the valley of the Bramaputra, mostly through uncharted country, and the discovery of the sources of the Irawadi. They experienced treacherous river crossings, plague, elephants, murder etc. Includes an extensive appendix of scientific observation, vocabulary, natural history detailing the mammals, birds and plants collected.
Ref:
24498
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