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Synopsis

Reprinted.

Item Description

8vo. 9 x 6 inches. 303 pp. Bound in original light blue cloth, gilt. Spine and board edges sunned. slight foxing of title page, but otherwise a very good copy. Illustrated by 3 plates of natural colour photographs, including frontispiece, by 48 black and white photographic plates and by folding map at end. Decorated by publisher's device on title page. Topographical study of the desert by a missionary who served in the Gobi by Alice Mildred Cable (1878-1952) and Francesca Law French (1871-1960), both of the China Inland Mission, the authors of this several studies related to the desert and missionary work in Central Asia.