Title: The motor route from Peking to Kashgar by Eric Teichman. Silk Road. RGS 1937 map Description: The Motor Route from Peking to Kashgar (to accompany the paper by Sir Eric Teichman K.C.M.G., C.I.E.)'. A route map illustrating one of the most remarkable Central Asian journeys of the inter-war period, undertaken by Sir Eric Teichman (1884–1944) — diplomat, traveller and what one biographer called "one of British diplomacy’s dashing characters, a flamboyantly enigmatic explorer-cum-special agent." A veteran of "special missions" in Central Asia since before the First World War, Teichman travelled in 1935 by truck across the Tarim Basin to Kashgar, then continued by pony and on foot over the Pamir and Karakoram ranges to Gilgit and onward to New Delhi, gathering political intelligence as he went. The map records this hazardous Silk Road traverse at a time when the region remained largely closed to outsiders. Teichman’s adventurous career ended abruptly in 1944: having returned to England from his final journey from Chongqing via the outer Silk Road, he was shot and killed at his Norfolk estate by two American soldiers poaching on his land — his murderer was executed by hanging on the gallows at HMP Shepton Mallet on V.E. Day 1945. A powerful map with strong narrative appeal, combining espionage, geopolitics and one of the last great pre-war trans-Asian journeys. . Royal Geographical Society / Eric Teichman. Published April 1937. Antique Royal Geographical Society map with related text pages. Size 22 x 65 cm | 8.5 x 25.5 inches. Condition: Good; suitable for framing. Please check the scan for any blemishes prior to making your purchase. This is a folding map. There is nothing printed on the reverse side, which is plain. Tags: 1937, China, China | Cathay, Map, Royal Geographical Society, The Geographical Journal
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