Dashing Diplomat
TEICHMAN, Eric, Sir.
Travels of a consular Officer in eastern Tibet. Together with a History of the Relations between China, Tibet and India … With original Maps of eastern Tibet and Photographs taken by the Author. Cambridge, University Press, 1922.
8vo, pp. xxiii, [1], 248, with 32 double-sided photographic plates, 7 maps, and one large folding map in rear pocket; small closed tears to upper margins of pp. v–viii; a very good, clean copy in the original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt; crest of Nottingham High School stamped in gilt to front board.
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Travels of a consular Officer in eastern Tibet. Together with a History of the Relations between China, Tibet and India … With original Maps of eastern Tibet and Photographs taken by the Author.
First edition, by the diplomat and orientalist Sir Eric Teichman (1884–1944), ‘one of British diplomacy’s dashing characters, [a] flamboyantly enigmatic explorer-cum-special agent’ (Winchester, The Man who loved China, 2008, p. 73).
‘Narrative of the author’s journey … on the borders of the Chinese provinces of Szechuen and Yunnan and of the Koko-Nor country in 1918. He traversed Kham from north to south’ (Yakushi).
Yakushi T25.