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High Tartary

Author: Owen Lattimore; Orville Schell
Publisher: New York : Kodansha International, 1994.
Series: Kodansha globe.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Owen Lattimore; Orville Schell
ISBN: 1568360541 9781568360546
OCLC Number: 31519381
Notes: "First published: Little, Brown & Co., 1930."
Reprint of the 1975 ed. published by AMS Press; with previously unpublished photographs and a new introduction by Orville Schell.
Description: xxxix, 386 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Contents: Caravanserai --
The snow road to Urumchi --
The capital of high Tartary --
The road north of the Heavenly Mountains --
T'ung-kan --
Wintering grounds of the Nomads --
Old windy gap --
A frontier of inner Asia --
Meeting --
On becoming an expedition --
Nomads of the western marches --
Spring migration --
The land of pioneers --
Beyond the of pioneers --
Beyond the Bogdo Ola --
The land of lost cities --
Vineyard and desert --
Westward for Kulja --
Ponies --
Sairam nor and the Talki Pass --
"Ich weiss nicht, was soll es bedeuten" --
The valley of the Ili --
Into the Heavenly Mountains --
Qazaqs of the high pastures --
Mare's milk --
Qazaq and Qirghiz --
The death of Iskander --
The American dukes in Central Asia --
The Muzart glacier --
Down to Aqsu --
The road south of the Heavenly Mountains --
The way of the five great passes --
Suget and Karakoram.
Series Title: Kodansha globe.
Responsibility: by Owen Lattimore.
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