Across Coveted Lands: Or a Journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta Overland [2 Volumes]

Arnold Henry Savage Landor, Across Coveted Lands: Or a Journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta Overland, London: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1902, 2 Volumes

Volume I: 461 pages including frontispiece and 64 black and white plates
Volume II: 459 pages including frontispiece and 101 black and white plates

New quarter leather bound with gilt text at the spine along with maroon cloth boards (each)
9.25 x 6.25 in (23.4 x 16 cm (each)

Arnold H S Landor was born to Charles Savage Landor in Florence, Italy, where he spent his childhood. He left for Paris at age fifteen to study at the Académie Julian directed by Gustave Boulanger and Jules Lefebvre. He then travelled the world, including America, Japan, and Korea, painting many landscapes and portraits. Upon his return to England, he was invited to Balmoral by Queen Victoria to recount his adventures and show his drawings. He later travelled to Nepal and Tibet, telling of his experiences in two books: In the Forbidden Land (1898) and Tibet and Nepal (1905). When he learned about the Boxer Rebellion in China he went to Peking (now spelled Beijing) to join the victory parade, afterward writing China and the Allies (1901). In 1901 he travelled from Russia to India, riding on horseback through Persia, publishing the account of that journey in the book Across Coveted Lands (1902). A journey to the Philippine Islands resulted in another book: The Gems of the East (1904). (Source: Wikipedia)

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