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First edition, in the dust jacket. Departing from London, the authors travelled to Dresden and Warsaw and down to Bucharest, before returning through southern Europe. In total, they journeyed over 6,300 miles. Etherton (1879-1963) was a British army officer and, in the opinion of Peter Hopkirk, "a formidable individual" (p. 99). Prior to the expedition, he served as the British Consul-General in Chinese Turkestan and a judge of Britain's supreme court in China. His co-traveller (1882-1969) directed the touring departments of the Automobile Association. Peter Hopkirk, Setting the East Ablaze: On Secret Service in Bolshevik Asia, 2001. Octavo. Half-tone frontispiece, 31 half-tone plates. Original green cloth remainder or secondary binding, spine lettered in black, front board panelled in blind, map endpapers. With dust jacket. Cloth clean, edges spotted; jacket flaps without price as issued, nicks and chipping, area of toning: a fine copy in near-fine jacket.…