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LIEUTENANT-COLONEL C. K. HOWARD-BURY(1881-1963).
Manuscript Travel Diary: Jubbulpore to England, July 18th-September 10th 1907. Folio (32 x 20cm), 85pp., pencil and black ink in quarter-morocco notebook. (worn). WITH 15 ORIGINAL MOUNTED PHOTOGRAPHS by Howard-Bury with his pencilled captions, mounted on dark card, (the card in some cases a little frayed at edges).
A fascinating travel diary, of particular interest for its observations of Imperial China, accompanied by the author's fine photographs illustrating scenes described in the text. The diary covers Howard-Bury's journey, accompanied throughout by his pet bear Nagu, from Jubbulpore to Bombay, Madras and Colombo and thence by steamer to Singapore, Saigon, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and up the Yangtze to Hankow, Nanking, Anking and Kingkiang; then on to Hankow, Peking, Tientsin, Mukden and Harbin and on to Moscow by the Trans-Siberian Express (skirting Lake Baikal), after which the diary ends. Most of the photographs are of scenes in or near Peking.
Howard-Bury is best known as the man who led the first expedition to Mount Everest in 1921 (no Westerner had at that stage reached within 50 miles of it). A first-rate soldier, explorer, intelligence officer and botanist, in 1905 he penetrated Tibet without permission, earning a severe rebuke from Curzon, and he travelled through parts of the Tien Shan mountains and Baltistan little known to Westerners. He fought at the Somme, Passchendaele and Ypres, where he was taken prisoner, and was awarded the D.S.O. In 1920 he undertook a diplomatic mission to persuade the Dalai Lama to allow Westerners to approach Everest. (See his Mount Everest. The Reconnaissance 1921. London, 1922.)
Manuscript Travel Diary: Jubbulpore to England, July 18th-September 10th 1907. Folio (32 x 20cm), 85pp., pencil and black ink in quarter-morocco notebook. (worn). WITH 15 ORIGINAL MOUNTED PHOTOGRAPHS by Howard-Bury with his pencilled captions, mounted on dark card, (the card in some cases a little frayed at edges).
A fascinating travel diary, of particular interest for its observations of Imperial China, accompanied by the author's fine photographs illustrating scenes described in the text. The diary covers Howard-Bury's journey, accompanied throughout by his pet bear Nagu, from Jubbulpore to Bombay, Madras and Colombo and thence by steamer to Singapore, Saigon, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and up the Yangtze to Hankow, Nanking, Anking and Kingkiang; then on to Hankow, Peking, Tientsin, Mukden and Harbin and on to Moscow by the Trans-Siberian Express (skirting Lake Baikal), after which the diary ends. Most of the photographs are of scenes in or near Peking.
Howard-Bury is best known as the man who led the first expedition to Mount Everest in 1921 (no Westerner had at that stage reached within 50 miles of it). A first-rate soldier, explorer, intelligence officer and botanist, in 1905 he penetrated Tibet without permission, earning a severe rebuke from Curzon, and he travelled through parts of the Tien Shan mountains and Baltistan little known to Westerners. He fought at the Somme, Passchendaele and Ypres, where he was taken prisoner, and was awarded the D.S.O. In 1920 he undertook a diplomatic mission to persuade the Dalai Lama to allow Westerners to approach Everest. (See his Mount Everest. The Reconnaissance 1921. London, 1922.)