High Tartary
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Author: Owen Lattimore, Orville Schell ISBN: 1568360541 Format: Paperback, 384pp Pub. Date: December 1994 Publisher: Kodan-Sha America, Inc. |
ANNOTATION
Owen Lattimore was a legendary adventurer, scholar and government adviser. High
Tartary is a rich, panoramic, yet intensely personal record of the adventures he
and his wife met on their wedding trip through the highest parts of Asia. It is
a classic tribute to Asia's proud nomads and their mountain homelands. Includes
29 original photos.
FROM THE CRITICS
Booknews
Reprint of the great travel yarn originally published in 1930, reprinted by AMS
in 1975, and now done with a new introduction & previously unpublished photos.
Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)