Barrett robert lemoyne (3 Ergebnisse)

First edition. Large 8vo. xii, 280 pp. Maps, some folding, one large folding in rear pocket, musical notation, decorated endpapers; includes an Urdu vocabulary at the rear. Trip through the mountains of Ladakh, 1923-1924, with a focus on the region's music and folk lore. Engraved bookplate of "Gypsy Davy & Lady Ba" on front pastedown. Original three-color illustrated cloth (rubbed). Light foxing to endpapers, else very good.…

Sm. 4to. 25 cm, first edition, 269p., 4 maps including rear pocket folding, music, illustrated endpapers, original green decorated cloth, spine titles stamped in white, upper cover illustrations stamped in black on green & white out line (brilliant), very good to fine. (tr). ~ A brilliant pictorial cover design. ~ Extensive series of descriptive letters from travels in the Himalyas of northern India. Robert Lemoyne Barrett (Gypsy Davy) and his wife Katharine Ruth Barrtett (Lady BA) travelled in 1923-1924 from Srinager through Baltistan and Karakoram into Ladakh. Contains much about the lore and music of the Himalayas. Robert Barrett was a founding member of the American Association of Geographers and previously had carried out much exploration in the Canadian Rockies.…

First Edition. First edition, 8vo, pp. xii, 280; pictorial endpapers, 4 folding maps; original pictorial green cloth stamped in black and white, and preserving the uncommon dust jacket which shows wear and short tears, plus a larger piece missing from the bottom on the spine and front panel. The fair jacket aside, a very good, sound and clean copy. Contains a 5-page Caravan Vocabulary, "Urdu words we taught our village men, with a few Ladakhi and Turki words which we all use commonly." "The text is a series of letters detailing a journey through the Himalayan region in Asia and relating some of the folktales told by local villagers. Among the other interesting oral histories and tidbits related by the author, there is a tale recounted from the perspective of villagers in the Himalayas about British explorer and military man Francis Younghusband who famously crossed the treacherous mountain range and uncharted desert territories as a young man" (National Book Auctions). Barrett was a wealthy explorer and traveler who founded the Association of American Geographers. Barrett traveled through the Canadian Rockies and later financed an expedition into the Himalayas. Barrett is also credited with beginning the Three-Corner-Round nonprofit organization's expeditions through the Sierra Nevada which continue to this day as an outdoor experience for young people.…