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TRINKLER, Emil.
The Stormswept Roof of Asia.
By Yak, Camel & Sheep Caravan in Tibet, Chinese Turkistan & over the Kara-Koram.
Publisher: London, Seeley, Service & Co., Limited, 1931
Stock code: 41363
Price: £350 Currency Conversion
First Edition in English, first published in German in 1930. Account of exploration in the Eastern Karakoram, from Srinagar to Leh and on into the Taklamakan Desert to Khotan and up to Yarkand and Kashgar. Trinkler died in a car crash in 1931. Illustrated from the author's own photographs.
Octavo. Original yellow cloth in dust jacket. Frontispiece and 15 other plates, folding map at the rear. Slight browning to the endpapers, edges mildly foxed, otherwise very good in slightly rubbed dust jacket a little tanned at the spine.
