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CABLE, Mildred and Francesca French.
Something Happened.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1934. Third printing.
Cloth, 320pp.
A fine copy in the pictorial d/w with has chips at the spine ends but is still very nice. Uncommon in d/w.
The travels of these intrepid missionaries to Chinese Turkestan, authors of "The Gobi Desert" and other works. The first third of the book provides background information on the authors; the majority of the book describes the journey by mule cart and camel from central China to Urumqi, with many repeated crossings of the Gobi, and detours taking them to Tun-Huang, the Mongolian frontier, Turfan, and so on. They were eventually driven out of China by the Civil War.
$100 CAD
CABLE, Mildred and Francesca French.Something Happened.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1934. Third printing.
Cloth, 320pp.
A fine copy in the pictorial d/w with has chips at the spine ends but is still very nice. Uncommon in d/w.
The travels of these intrepid missionaries to Chinese Turkestan, authors of "The Gobi Desert" and other works. The first third of the book provides background information on the authors; the majority of the book describes the journey by mule cart and camel from central China to Urumqi, with many repeated crossings of the Gobi, and detours taking them to Tun-Huang, the Mongolian frontier, Turfan, and so on. They were eventually driven out of China by the Civil War.
$100 CAD