Travels of a Consular Officer in North-West China

TEICHMAN, Eric

Published by Cambridge: at the University Press, 1921

About this Item

First edition. Royal octavo, pp xiii, 219. With two sketch maps, 58 photo plate illustrations and two folding maps in the rear pocket as called for. The maps are of Kansu and Shensi, were drawn by the author and show his route. Bound in red cloth covered hard boards, blind stamp rule to edges of the boards, gilt lettering and publisher's coat-of-arms to the spine. Clean and unmarked internally, some offset to endpapers, a small bookseller's label to the front paste-down (Isseido bookstore, Tokyo); a small bump at the bottom of the upper board and a thin line to the lower board have been discretely touched up with red ink. Overall in Very good Plus condition. Eric Teichman (1884-1944) was a British diplomat, spy, explorer, travel writer and photographer. Employed by the British consular service, he went on various "special missions" and fact-finding journeys in Central Asia from as early as pre-WW1 and continued through to 1943 when he made his final trip from Chongqing across the Tarim Basin. He crossed both the Pamir Mountains and the Karakorum Mountains on his two journeys from China to India. Teichman wrote four books, the three above and a 1937 account of his journey to Turkistan. His two accounts "Travels of a Consular Officer…." are particularly well regarded. Teichman met an unfortunate ending in 1944, murdered by two US Army soldiers on his estate in Norfolk, England the men were poaching on his land and shot Teichman after a confrontation, one was subsequently hanged for the crime. Seller Inventory # B8218

Bibliographic Details

Title: Travels of a Consular Officer in North-West ...

Publisher: Cambridge: at the University Press

Publication Date: 1921

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Edition: 1st Edition