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Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Paying the Price - How Nature in Canada's far north has extracted a toll on trappers - with photos; Behind the Himalayas - Part I - Photo-illustrated account of exploration of the upper reaches of the Brahmaputra River; The Rubber-Smugglers of Malaya - An amusing story; The Outlaw Elephant - Rogue elephant "George" ravaged the Travancore district of India from 1920 to 1925, killing many and doing immense damage - article with photos; My Desert Dash to Damascus - A decidedly exciting journey across the Syrian Desert amidst hostile devil worshippers and Bedouin - with interesting photos; "Blue-Water Andy" - Did he spot the wreck of an ancient Spanish treasure-galleon on some nameless island? ; Across Africa With a Camera - M.A. Wetherell's photo-illustrated account of his trans-African journey; The Disappearing Lion - An amusing tale from Australia; The Kahuna's Power - A strange little story of native "magic" in Hawaii; A Pearler in the Philippines - F.D. Burdett describes his exciting experiences on pearling trips among the Philippine Islands; The Haunted Camp - The disappearance of a white man in Africa, and the startling events that followed; An Australian Robinson Crusoe - Part IV - Jack McLaren spent eight years on the little-known western coast of Cape York Peninsula. 84 pages plus 20 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this fascinating vintage issue. Book
Pages 177-272, plus 16 pages of great ads. Features: The Blue Bandits - Part 1 - Elusive thieves operate in the Franco-Italian villages on either side of the frontier in the French department of the Hautes Alpes and the Italian district of Monte Viso; How I Lost My Christmas Dinner - hilarious story of a Christmas spent with the Maori adherents of self-styled "prophet" Rua - article with photos; On Foot Through South America - Part 2 - photo-illustrated account of Harry A. Franck's visit to Quito and his tramp through Ecuador; The Last Voyage of H.M.S. "Drake" - a vivid glimpse of the perils of convoy work and the "price of Admiralty"; ; The Trials of a Naturalist's Wife - Part 1; My Two Years' Captivity Among the Turks - Part 1of Airman Capt. T.W.White's adventures and daring escape; The Moonshiners - what happened when the author stumbled into a camp of Tennessee moonshiners; Photo of thousands of snakes at breeding time in the Klamath Falls, Oregon area; The Wonderland of the Arctic - description of a trip to Danish Greenland, with photos; In Quest of Cannibals - Part 3 - exploration and adventure in unknown New Guinea; Photo of German "Death Clock" constructed primarily of skulls and other bones; Two Balloonatics - an exciting balloon adventure from just before the war (WWI); Treasure Island - great photo-illustrated article about the remote South Pacific island of Nauru; The Mad Millionaire - how vast wealth came unexpectedly to a poor Mexican Indian, and the tragedy that ensued; The Sacred Mountain - photo-illustrated account of a picturesque Tibetan pilgrimage; The Resurrection of "Red" Wilson - an exciting story of the old days in the south-west, when the Apaches were still a terror in the land; Photo of a lakatoi (lakatois) New Guinea boat. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book
Features include: Hopper No. 47 - Tragic happenings to an apprentice pilot in Home waters; Mra Toons "Lemon" - A former Revenue Officer's account of an encounter with an astute Oriental who planned to make a fortune by smuggling opium into Burma; Chinchilla Ranching - Describes a new industry; Water Divining in India; South American Excursion - a colourful account of a motor-car trip into the interior of Venezuela; Marijuana - describes the perilous experiences in which a particularly sinister form of "dope" involved the narrator; By Pony to Ladakh - An account of a trip through a little-known region of the borders of mysterious Tibet; Hunting the "Bearded Wonder" - Author sets out to track down a sinister Malayan terrorist leader. Black and white illustrations throughout. Above-average wear externally. Chips missing from spine. Contents in good condition. Unmarked. Magazine
Features: Two Men and a Donkey - Part I - two young artists walk from the South of France to Spain; With a Pack-Train in Jasper National Park, Canada; Dead Men's Tracks - Part II - a Western Australia Story about a lost mine; My Adventures in Mexico - Part I, by John Edwin Hogg; Obtaining an identity card in France; The Harpist of Alexandria; My First Panther - The Fur Trail - a trappers tale from the southern end of Kootenay Lake, British Columbia, Canada; To Lhasa in Disguise - Part III (Conclusion) - how a white woman succeeded, for the first time in history, in entering Lhasa, the Forbidden City of Tibet; The King of the Dedangs - how an obsure adventurer became a short-term king of certain savage tribes; Checkmate - how a murderous gang of dacoits in India met their Waterloo; a special home in Parksville, British Columbia (photos); A Night with Crocodiles - an eventful African river journey. Covers loose but present. Light pencil signature atop front cover. Above-average wear. Still a worthy copy. Book
Features include: The World's Loneliest Island - Arthur Scholes on Heard Island, Antarctica; All Aboard for Adventure (part II) - Five young Americans set out in a sailboat for tropic seas; The Indians of Guatemala - colourful glimpses; Mountain Rescue - A Night Adventure on Bedean nam Bian, the loftiest mountain in Argyllshire, Scotland; The Warning - a tale of premonition; The Mysterious Stranger - a tale from the wilds of Tibet; Poll Chunk's Son - A Drama of Real-Life in the mountains of Kentucky; Noosing Wild Buffalo in Ceylon; The Hidden Pass - A strange story of the early days of Canadian railway development and the "Ice-Man of Revelstoke"; Land Without Women - the holy community of Mount Athos and its monestary of Simonpetra; A Riddle of the Bush - an Australian story; The Robin Hood of Sicily; In the Shadow of Ju-Ju - remarkable cases from West Africa; Pirate Treasure - Pirates were not unknown in Newfoundland at the time of the American War of Independence; Quack Doctors in Burma. Illustrated in black and white. Above-average wear to exterior with openings at covers. Contents good. Magazine
Pages 474-560 + 32 pages of ads. Features: The Six Skulls, Part II (sequel to "In the Grip of the Hip Sings";The Reformation of Bill Allerday - an amusing Australian story; The Human 'Tank' - Mike Inik constructed a suit of armour out of solid steel and schemed revenge for twenty years; The Boat-Dwellers - wonderful photo-illustrated article on the thousands of British families who live on boats; "R.N.-W.M.P - The Riders of the Plains - authoritative stories of some of their exploits; Strange Stories of the War, including "Maroc", mascot of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders; On the Borders of Tibet, Part VI - article with amazing photos; The Trouble at Punta Gorda - a planter's struggle with drink-crazed labourers in British Honduras; Circumstantial Evidence - the October 4th, 1900 tragedy at Rochester University, New York state; Historic Crimes and Mysteries; Railway Building in the Wilderness, Part II - fantastic photo-illustrated article on the construction of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railroad through the Canadian Rockies; and more. Somewhat above-average external wear with openings to bottom of backstrip. Unmarked. Binding intact. A worthy vintage copy. Book
W.Y. EVANS-WENTZ The tibetan book of the great liberation : or the method of realizing 'Nirvana' through knowing the mind : preceded by an epitome of Padma-Sambhava's biography and followed by guru Phadampa Sangay's teachings. London \etc.!, Oxford university press 1981 italian, 261 ST1097T Brossura editoriale, volume in buone condizioni, lievi segni di usura causati dal fattore tempo sulla copertina, interno in ottimo stato, legatura salda, testo in inglese 261 pagine circa Copertina come da foto
In-8 p. (mm. 222x138), tela edit. verde con titolo e decoraz. dorate al piatto e al dorso (manca la sovraccoperta), con alcune tavole in b.n. f.t., come da Indice, ampiamente descritte. L’opera, con una approfondita introduzione, è così suddivisa: “The Chikhai Bardo and the Chonyid Bardo - The ‘Bardo’ of the moments of death - The ‘Bardo’ of the experiencing of reality - The Sidpa Bardo - The after-death world - the process of rebirth”. The Appendix e l’Addenda (Yoga - Tantricism - Mantras, or words of power - The Guru and Shishya (or Chela) and initiations - Northern and Southern Buddism and Christianity - The Medieval Christian judgement”. "Prima edizione inglese". Si tratta della prima traduzione inglese del testo Tibetano Buddista “Bardo Thodol”, realizzata dallo scrittore americano Walter Yeeling Evans-Wentz (1878-1965), antropologo e pioniere nello studio del buddismo tibetano e nella sua trasmissione al mondo occidentale. Il titolo fu inventato da Wentz per la similarità con l’antico “Libro dei morti” egiziano, e come il testo egizio anche questo tibetano diventò un importante classico della spiritualità universale. Solo antica firma di apparten. ms. al frontespizio, altrimenti esemplare molto ben conservato.
22.5x15cm, brown cloth gilt, 256pp, b&w line drawings. 1st ed. Famous and controversial autobiography. A very good to fine copy in teared at top of spine but attractive dustwrapper.
In 8° gr., tutta tela editoriale con sovraccoperta illustrata (con minime fioriture), pp. XII,168, con 16 tavole b/n f.t.; copia molto buona. Fascicule 35. (XC1/B) (XC1/B)
16mo br, ed wraps, pp.140 reincarnazione dalai lama
First Edition. Un volume (16x24 cm) di 286 pagine; qualche fioritura solo alla prima e ultima pagina bianca. Tela editoriale blu (no jacket) con titoli dorati. Belle condizioni per questo volume sulle leggende buddiste del Tibet della famosa scrittrice ed esploratrice (1868-1969), nota soprattutto per essere stata la prima donna occidentale a giungere a Lhasa nel 1924, città vietata agli stranieri all'epoca, dopo otto lunghi mesi di marcia partendo dalla Mongolia e attraversando il Tibet. Nella sua lunga carriera di esploratrice, fotografa, orientalista e antropologa scrisse oltre di trenta libri di viaggi e alcuni testi sul Buddhismo.
Features: Pigskin Preview '61 - an expert's pick of the Nation's Top Teams and Players; Berlin on a Tightrope - a Post editor reports from the city on which the eyes of the world are focused; The Tragedy of Tibet - in 2 and a half years of brutal domination, the Red Chinese have reduced this once-proud nation to slavery and famine - a shocking report based on eyewitness accounts; Brunette Today, Blonde Tomorrow - tints promise to become as widely used as lipstick; These Children Love to Read - Mae Carden teaches reading using the maligned phonetic system; Adventures of the Mind - The Joy of Life, by Alexander Eliot; Atomic War on Insects - by using radiation to sterilize males, scientists are tricking the deadly screwworm fly into breeding itself out of existence - Drs. Edward Knipling and Raymond Bushland. Somewhat above-average wear. A sound copy. Book
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 15 plates; original cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed at edges and with minor loss (just affecting lettering) at head of backstrip. Appendices include a list of plants introduced by the author to England from Asia, and a register of known plants from that region not in cultivation here.. Scarce in the dustwrapper.
AA.VV The rise of esoteric buddhism in Tibet. India, Motilal Banarsidass 1979 italian, 272 ST1095A Copertina rigida, volume in buone condizioni, segni di usura causati dal fattore tempo sulla copertina, interno in ottimo stato, legatura salda, testo in inglese 272 pagine circa Copertina come da foto
In 8°, t.t. edit. con titoli in oro al dorso, pp. XVI,235,(1) con circa 40 tavv. fot. b/n f.t., 3 mappe del tibet ripiegate, copia molto buona. (YB9/d) (La spedizione standard è SEMPRE tracciata con raccomandata - piego di libri, eventuale FATTURA da richiedere all'ordine) (YB9/d)
"First pictorial account of the POTALA , former residence of the Dalai Lamas". Profusely illustrated in color. Plan of palace and chronology. Book measures 8.5" x 11.5" with 121 pages. In pristine condition.
8vo, cloh in dj, ex library but no marks, very good. Shortly before midnight on March 17, 1959, the Dalai Lama, without his glasses and dressed as an ordinary Tibetan solider, slipped out of his summer residence with only four aides at his side. At that moment, he became the symbolic head of the Tibetan government in exile, and Gyalo Thondup, the only one of the Dalai Lama's brothers not to don the robes of a Buddhist monk, became the fulcrum for the independence movement. The Noodle Maker of Kalimpong tells the extraordinary story of the Dalai Lama's family, the exile of the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism from Tibet, and the enduring political crisis that has seen remote and bleakly beautiful Tibet all but disappear as an independent nation-state. For the last sixty years, Gyalo Thondup has been at the at the heart of the epic struggle to protect and advance Tibet in the face of unreliable allies, overwhelming odds, and devious rivals, playing an utterly determined and unique role in a Cold War high-altitude superpower rivalry. Here, for the first time, he reveals how he found himself whisked between Chiang Kai-shek, Zhou Enlai, Jawaharlal Nehru, and the CIA, as he tried to secure, on behalf of his brother, the future of Tibet. About the Author: Gyalo Thondup, the older brother of the Dalai Lama, lives on a hilltop compound in Kalimpong, India, that also houses the noodle factory he set up with his late wife, Diki Dolkar (Zhu Dan).
188 pages. Features: Cover photo of Mother Teresa; American Airlines ad features Margaret SanGemino; Gorgeous Monet ad features gold earring on model with black background; Safire on Machisma; Murder Most Foul; Great two-page color-photo ad for Ralph Lauren Western Wear; Blackglama ad appears to feature Angela Lansbury wearing mink; Very artistic ad for Pierre Cardin Man's Cologne; Lauren Bacall is featured in a Fortunoff ad; The World of Mother Teresa - photo-illustrated feature article; Warring over new missiles for NATO; Chivas Regal ad; One-page ad for the Look 37 ski binding; One-page Bermuda tourism ad; Britain's Establishment Spies - Kim Philby, Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean; Hidden Splendors of Tibet - color-photo-illustrated article; One-page Cuisinart ad; Beautiful Alfred Dunner/Fortrel ad featuring model in red top; Twins Reared Apart - a living lab - with photos of Jim Lewis and Jim Springer - Thomas Bouchard's lab; Big Business on the Offensive - they are now the biggest lobby in Washington; Peter Pan and How He Grew - James M. Barrie's timeless play of youth was inspired by his unique friendships with children; The Party's Over for Political Parties; Gorgeously photo-illustrated Jewel fashion feature - with photos of designers Angela Cummings, Kai-Yin Lo, and Kristin Moore; Artistic ad for Crayons footwear; The Year of the Trichologist; Featured Home - a former industrial library is domesticated by Angus Bruce and others; Garlic article; Camp ads; and more. Above-average external wear. Faint library stamp and small check mark atop front cover. A worthy vintage copy. Book
Formato cm. 25 x 18. Pagine X, 806 + 58 tavole Brossura editoriale di colore grigio. Lieve danno al margine inferiore del dorso della II parte. Tracce d'uso. All'interno alcune gore. Intonso ed in stato di conservazione complessivamente buono. Prima ed unica edizione di questo ponderoso studio sulla religione ed i riti di alcune popolazioni dell'area tibetana.
8vo, hardcover in dj, pp.308
8vo., Second Impression, with 2 full-page maps in the text, page-edges browning; blue cloth, a bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter chipped at head and tail of backstrip. Published in the same month as the first edition. The harrowing account of a young Polish officer's captivity under the Russians, and his eventual break for freedom from Siberia across the Gobi to Tibet.
London, John Murray, 1972, in-16, tela editoriale con sovraccoperta, pp. XI, [1], 174.
180 pages. Bibliography. References. Index. "Focuses on the topography, environment, historical development, buildings, and townscape of old Lhasa. Introduces future plans and issues concerning the safeguarding of Lhasa's historical townscape in the face of urban development. Includes 25 new maps never before published, satellite photos, historical maps and photos, watercolours, information on old buildings, and many new colour photos." - dust jacket. Dust jacket attractive in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. Average wear and usual library markings to book bound in scarlet cloth with hinges taped. A worthy reference copy. Book
253pp. 25 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good
