Honolulu, Hawai: University of Hawaii Press, Date: 1993. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. (ix) 284 pp. Beige cloth lettered in copper on the spine; yellow endpapers; headband; illustrated with black and white photographs, maps and diagrams. Light edge and corner wear on the dustjacket with some fading on the spine; no interior markings. The Chapters are: You Can't Do That Anymore; Martin and the Ides of May; The City Returned to Civilization; By Bedbug to Larkland; The Temple of the Larks; The Swedish Connection; My Namesake - Prince Virtue; A Day in the Life of a Desert Traveler; A Desert Diner's Guide; From Grassland to Gobi; How the West Was Lost; Tales of Cameleer Zhou; Camelot Peachy and Other Bactrians; Death Row in the Desert; The Mongols that Time Passed By; The Torgut Diaspora; The River That Died of Thirst; Marco Polo's Lost City of Etsina; Prisoners of Warlord Little Big Horse; Where the Great Wall Ends; Trucking Along the Old Silk Road; By Titanic II Down China's Sorrow; and Two Flat-footed Fools.. 1993. University of Hawaii Press ISBN 0824814932 9780824814939 [CA]

Honolulu: University of Hawaii PRess, Date: 1993. ix, 284p., b/w illus., maps, dj (A Kolowalu book). 1993. University of Hawaii PRess ISBN 0824814932 US

University of Hawaii Press. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages. University of Hawaii Press ISBN 0824814932 9780824814939 [US]

Honolulu: University of Hawaii PRess, Date: 1993. ix, 284p., b/w illus., maps, dj (A Kolowalu book). 1993. University of Hawaii PRess ISBN 0824814932 9780824814939 [US]

University of Hawaii Press, Date: 1993. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. First Printing. Bound in cream cloth with title information to spine in gold. 286 pages. With black/white photos and drawings throughout. NEW. Not read. All corners pointed. Binding firm and square. Without bumps, chips, tears or creases. Not marked and very clean and bright. Dust jacket same. All books carefully wrapped and sent boxed. 1993. University of Hawaii Press ISBN 0824814932 9780824814939 [US]

University of Hawai'i Press, 31/12/Date: 1993 00:00:01. hardcover. Very Good. 2.0285 in x 23.8619 in x 16.2477 in. 1993. University of Hawai'i Press ISBN 0824814932 9780824814939 [GB]

Univ of Hawaii Pr 1993-04-01 Hardcover New Size: 9x6x0; New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

University of Hawaii Press 1993 Hard cover Good. Some light scratches and marks to the jacket. The edges are slightly worn in places. Fine to read and use throughout. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 284 p. Contains: Illustrations. Kolowalu Books (Hardcover).

Honolulu, HI, U.S.A. University of Hawaii Press 1993 Cloth As New in As New jacket Book Slightly smaller book, white cloth, very bright orange lettering on spine, yellow inside covers and adjacent end papers, 284 lightly browned pages plus brief biographical note, photos and illustrations throughout. DJ has dark yellow background, b/w photo of man on camel on front, cartoon of man thinking of an explorer writing on back. DJ and book, both As New.

University of Hawaii Press 1993 Hardcover Good Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

ISBN10: 0824814932, ISBN13: 9780824814939, [publisher: University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu] Hardcover First Edition Book Condition: Very Good with very good dustjacket with some shelfwear to edges. Interior text is clean, clear and bright. In the mid 1930s, the twenty-three year old author and a companion made a journey attempting to retrace the footsteps of Genghis Khan. They ended up dodging fighting between the communists nearing the end of their Long March and a coalition of forces under Chiang Kai-shek's Central Government and a cabal of Muslim warlords. ". a marvelous travelogue which vividly recreates a bygone era". A low-key memoir of a thousand-mile camel trek across the Gobi desert in pre-WW II China, tracing not too diligently the steps of Genghis Khan--and complementing Tim Severin's In Search of Genghis Khan (1992). Just out of Yale at the height of the Depression, DeFrancis (Chinese/University of Hawaii; Visible Speech, 1989, etc.--not reviewed) went to Beijing to learn Chinese in order to get a job with Standard Oil (only belatedly did he discover that Standard Oil did its hiring in New York). The project suggested to DeFrancis in China by Canadian Desmond Martin (a Genghis Khan enthusiast and this book's photographer) was to be only a summer adventure, but the experience and the author's growing interest in the Chinese language were to determine his subsequent career. In a pace as leisurely as that of the camels he and ...
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ISBN10: 0824814932, ISBN13: 9780824814939, [publisher: University of Hawaii PRess, Honolulu] Hardcover ix, 284p., b/w illus., maps, dj (A Kolowalu book).
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ISBN10: 0824814932, ISBN13: 9780824814939, [publisher: University of Hawai'i Press 1993-12-31] Hardcover Some light scratches and marks to the jacket. The edges are slightly worn in places. Fine to read and use throughout.
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University of Hawaii Press, Date: 1993. Hardcover. Very Good. Disclaimer:Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. 1993. University of Hawaii Press ISBN 0824814932 9780824814939 [US]

Univ of Hawaii Pr, January Date: 1993. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 1993. Univ of Hawaii Pr ISBN 0824814932 9780824814939 [US]