Lot
9039
Lot 9039
Catherine Theodora, Lady Macartney: 'An English Lady in Chin...
Estimate
£60 - £80
Catherine Theodora, Lady Macartney: 'An English Lady in Chinese Turkestan', London, Ernest Benn, 1931, 1st edition, 1st impression, frontis + 3 further full page black & white plates from photographs + map complete, [6],236pp, original cloth, spine lettered in silver. Account of life in Kashgar by Catherine, Lady Macartney (née Borland), the wife of Sir George Macartney, British consul-general in Kashgar at the end of the 19th century. They married in 1898, and, as a bride of 21, Lady Macartney journeyed with Sir George Macartney to one of the least accessible places on earth - Kashgar in Turkestan, on the remote borders of India, Russia and China, which at that time was Britain's most advanced position in the Great Game, the long and shadowy struggle with the Tsarist Russia for political and economic supremacy in Asia.
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