SALE, Richard.
Mapping the Himalayas. Michael Ward and the Pundit legacy.
Ross-on-Wye, Carreg Limited, 2009.
4to, pp. 207, [1]; with 8 double-sided colour photographic plates, black and white illustrations in text throughout; with 44 folding facsimile maps; text in blue cloth-covered boards, title in gilt to spine and upper cover; small marks to upper cover; maps in black card slipcase; housed together in blue cloth-covered slipcase; very good.
Limited edition, no. 13 of 50 copies, signed by Richard Sale. ‘Who is there whose heart has not been thrilled when they first heard the stories of the Pundits, that remarkable group of men who, from the 1860s through to the 1890s, were sent to map clandestinely the remote areas north of British India and so help frustrate the expected southward advance of the Russian Empire? … Michael Ward and his own feats of exploration fit well as a modern epilogue to those heroic memories of the Great Game’ (Foreword).
