Through the Heart of Asia Over the Pamir to India. . . Illustrations by Albert Pepin. Translated from the French by C.B. Pitman. In Two Volumes.

BONVALOT, Gabriel.

Chapman and Hall, Ltd./ A.C. Armstrong and Son,, 1889

Two volumes. 27 cm. First English edition. xxii, 282pp; 256pp; 250 illustrations, color fold out map. Original green cloth, pictorial of snowy mountains and an expedition mission trudging through deep snow.

Contents: Vol. 1. From Marseilles to Tiflis ; From Tiflis to Reshd ; From Reshd to Teheran ; From Teheran to Bostan ; From Bostan to Meshed ; From Meshed to Samarcand ; From Samarcand to Amu ; Among the Afghans --Vol. 2. From the Amu to Samarcand ; The Pamir ; Towards the Kunjut ; Stopped in the Tchatral.

"The author's second journey with A. Pepin and G. Capus in Central Asia in the years 1886-87. From Samarkand he explored the head of the Oxus in the Pamirs and descended to the Indus from the Wakhan valley through Masutj in Chitral." - Yakushi. BM III: 920 (634); Howgego B57; Yakushi 219b.