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Book Description Loose Leaf. Condition: Good. Ex-Library hardcover with dj with all the usual markings, attachments, and library wear. Text block clean and unmarked. Tight binding. Seller Inventory # GL1837151
Book Description hardcover. Condition: very good(+). Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First. Illustrated in black and white. 249 pages, 8vo, black cloth, edge-worn dust wrapper. New York: Liveright, (1975). A very good(+) copy in a very good dust wrapper. Seller Inventory # 123840
Book Description Book Club Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Physical description; xx, 249 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 22 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (p. 242-244) and index. Subjects; Mekong River Expedition, (1866-1873) - Studies. Indochina - Description and travel. Mekong River - Discovery and exploration. China - Description and travel. China - Description and travel - To 1900. Genres; Bibliography. Illustrated. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 234788
Book Description Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Plus. First Edition. Ex-Library. 249 pp withy B&W illustrations in text. The Frenchman, Francis Garnier, led an expedition up the Mekong from Saigon in Viet Nam to Kumming in Southern China in search of a useable trade route to China. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Library pocket and markings on flyleaf. DJ is bright and intact, with mylar protector taped on. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Seller Inventory # 001990
Book Description Book Club Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Physical description; xx, 249 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 22 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (p. 242-244) and index. Subjects; Mekong River Expedition, (1866-1873) - Studies. Indochina - Description and travel. Mekong River - Discovery and exploration. China - Description and travel. China - Description and travel - To 1900. Genres; Bibliography. Illustrated. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 234788
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Ex-Library with usual library markings, light reading slant, lightly soiled edges, otherwise clean and well bound. In 1866, six Frenchmen led by Francis Garnier, set out to find a trade route up the Mekong River into China. During two years, they mapped over four thousand miles of previously unsurveyed territory as their journey took them from Saigon, Phaom Penh, and the tropical heat of Vietnam and Cambodia to the bitter cold of the mountains of southwestern China. With maps and black-and-white illustrations. Seller Inventory # 82180
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. 1st Edition (Unstated); First Printing. Wear to DJ edges, light; minor tears. DJ and front free endpaper are clipped. Foxing (light) to the exterior edge of pages. No markings or other noteworthy defects.; B&W Illustrations; 250 pages. Seller Inventory # HVD-39422-A-0
Book Description black full cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. old bookshop sticker inside front cover, otherwise contents free of markings. price clipped dustwrapper in vg+ cond. 1cm tear on front, minor rubbing nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first edition. first printing (#1 in # line). xxii+249p+bio note. 16 b&w maps & illustrations. chronology. sources. index. asian history. indo~china. laos. cambodia. vietnam. french history. southeast asia. ~ Ninety years ago, no one in the Western world knew the full course, or indeed the source, of the great Mekong River. In 1866, however, six Frenchmen set out with an expedition to seek a trade route up the Mekong into China; and it is this expedition~the equal of other, much better remembered European expeditions in Africa at the same period led by men such as Burton, Speke and Livingstone~that is the subject of Milton Osborne's exciting book. When the expedition was concluded, it was judged "the happiest and most complete of the nineteenth century," and its surviving leader, Francis Garnier, shared an award with David Livingstone. But it was a story also of courage, endurance, and tragedy. Great obstacles were overcome by disease~weakened men as they traveled up the river. During two years, they mapped over four thousand miles of previously unsurveyed territory as their journey took them from Saigon, Phnom Penh, and the tropical heat of Vietnam and Cambodia to the bitter cold of the mountains of southwestern China. It is a stirring and an epic story, enhanced not only by the excitement of the events, but also by the vividness and drive of Dr. Osborne's narrative and his wide knowledge of the present~day Indochinese region, where he has traveled extensively. While he was in the Australian Foreign Service, Milton Osborne served two years in Cambodia. Subsequently, he has become a well~known authority on Southeast Asia and the French role there. A visiting professor at Yale University in 1974~75, he is now director of the British Institute in Southeast Asia, based in Singapore. Seller Inventory # 2022401
Book Description Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Good conventional account of this important expedition. p249. DW in archival sleeve; sunned. Seller Inventory # 004093
Book Description Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. First of this edition. Cloth, 249pp. Fine in d/w. Account of the 1866 expedition on the Mekong River. Seller Inventory # 9346