MURDER, BIG GAME HUNTING, AND MEETING THE DALAI LAMA
Adventure, Sport and Travel on the Tibetan Steppes
Constable, 1911.
First edition. Large 8vo. Publisher's green pictorial cloth, lettered in gilt to the spine and black to the upper cover. Photogravure frontispiece, two colour folding maps, and numerous illustrations throughout the text. An uncommonly fine copy, bright and clean. Inscription to front free endpaper.
Fergusson's account of two expeditions across the Tibetan steppes and western China between 1906 and 1908. Fergusson was joined on the expedition by John Weston Brooke and Cecil Henry Meares:
"The trio hunted wild boar and goral in Wassu province, then proceeded down the Min River in search of penyang (blue sheep) but were unable to procure one. In the Taokwan valley, serows were bagged. Meares journeyed into Changmin territory where he collected a takin. It was during a trip to Lololand that Brooke was murdered, his body eventually recovered by Fergusson" (Czech).
Before this fate, Brooke was granted an audeience with Thubten Gyatso, the thirteenth Dalai Lama of Tibet, "his first audience, I believe, with an Englishman" (p.6).
Czech, An Annotated Bibliography of Asian Big Game Hunting, 77.
Stock ID: 44487
