Across Coveted Lands

In two volumes, with 175 illustrations, diagrams, plans and maps by the author.  Both volumes rebound on spine and with new end papers. Page edges uncut. Pages 461 and 459. Content bright and clear, binding tight, though ex-library copies.

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 traveled 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 traveled 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 traveled 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).(Wikipedia)