Eighteen Hundred Miles On a Burmese Tat. Through Burmah, Siam, and the Eastern Shan States by an Ordinary British Subaltern -
Lieutenant G. J. Younghusband
1888 - W. H. Allen & Co., London - First Edition
‘The following pages give an account of a journey made during six months' leave in the beginning of 1887. They do not profess to any literary merit whatever, but are merely a faithful record of new countries and new nations, as seen with the eyes of an ORDINARY BRITISH SUBALTERN.‘
The journey was made on horseback through Burma and Thailand, from Moulmein (Mawlamyine), 300 kilometres south of Rangoon (Yangon) north to Kengtung on the borders of China, Thailand, and Laos, and then all the way south to Bangkok via Chiang Mai. All outlined on the fold out ‘Skeleton Map of Siam’ to the rear.
Younghusband is an entertaining and observant writer, and his amateur sketches illustrate the book throughout, these are spread over thirteen full page plates (one of which folds out, and one is a duplicate). Major General Sir George John Younghusband, KCMG, KCIE, CB (1859-1944) was a cavalry officer and major-general in the British Indian Army. Younghusband was commissioned into the 17th Foot in 1878. He later transferred to the British Indian Army's Guides Cavalry and served in several conflicts, including the Second Afghan War, the Mahdist War, the Third Burmese War, the Second Boer War and finally in the First World War. Due to wounds received on the battlefield, he was forced to retire from the army in 1917. In his later life he became a noted author of several books, and the Keeper of the Jewel House at the Tower of London.
Reference: Herbert, Burma, 60.
Octavo (book size 19.6x13.3cm), pp. [6] 162. In publisher’s red cloth, spine and upper boards lettered in gilt, top edge unttrimmed, others trimmed, grey floral patterned endpapers. Condition: Near fine, one or two gatherings a little loose, in very good red cloth, spine gently sunned, light soiling to edges of cloth. Ref: 112511 Price: HK$ 6,000
The journey was made on horseback through Burma and Thailand, from Moulmein (Mawlamyine), 300 kilometres south of Rangoon (Yangon) north to Kengtung on the borders of China, Thailand, and Laos, and then all the way south to Bangkok via Chiang Mai. All outlined on the fold out ‘Skeleton Map of Siam’ to the rear.
Younghusband is an entertaining and observant writer, and his amateur sketches illustrate the book throughout, these are spread over thirteen full page plates (one of which folds out, and one is a duplicate). Major General Sir George John Younghusband, KCMG, KCIE, CB (1859-1944) was a cavalry officer and major-general in the British Indian Army. Younghusband was commissioned into the 17th Foot in 1878. He later transferred to the British Indian Army's Guides Cavalry and served in several conflicts, including the Second Afghan War, the Mahdist War, the Third Burmese War, the Second Boer War and finally in the First World War. Due to wounds received on the battlefield, he was forced to retire from the army in 1917. In his later life he became a noted author of several books, and the Keeper of the Jewel House at the Tower of London.
Reference: Herbert, Burma, 60.
Octavo (book size 19.6x13.3cm), pp. [6] 162. In publisher’s red cloth, spine and upper boards lettered in gilt, top edge unttrimmed, others trimmed, grey floral patterned endpapers. Condition: Near fine, one or two gatherings a little loose, in very good red cloth, spine gently sunned, light soiling to edges of cloth. Ref: 112511 Price: HK$ 6,000