Travel
WHITE, John Claude
Sikhim and Bhutan. Twenty-one years on the North-east frontier, 1887-1908.
Arnold, London 1909. First edition. 8vo ( 26 x 17.5 cms), xix, 332pp., folding map 7 photogravures, 34 photographic illustrations, old ex-libris label to half-title, slight spotting to the fore-edge, original green pictorial gilt cloth, top edge gilt others uncut; a very attractive copy.
White is best known today for his stunning series of photographs of Tibet and Lhasa published in 1908. In 1887 the author visited Sikkim for the first time. In the following year he joined the expeditionary force sent to the Sikkim-Nepal war as Assistant Political Officer and stayed in Sikkim as the first Political Officer for twenty years. During that time he he went to the Talung glacier and also Lhonak. When he returned to Lhonak in 1902 as a member of the Sikkim-Tibet Boundary Committee he carried out detailed explorations. In 1903-04 he accompanied the Younghusband Mission to Lhasa. He visited Bhutan several times over the course of the next couple of years. Yakushi W134; Neate W56.
Price: £ 950
US Dollar Price: $ 1410
Stock Number: 66368