Author : I.S.K. Soboleff

Title :  Nansen Passport - Round The World on a Motor-Cycle 

Published : London  : G. Bell & Sons, 1936.  First Edition. 

Description :  

viii, 242 pp. Frontispiece and 14 further illustrations. Map endpapers. Inscribed by the author 'To my dear friend Robert McCready With very best wishes and memories of A Platoon  I.S.K. Soboleff. 28-11-40 Winchester.' The stylish dustwrapper, designed by Bip Pares, has small chips/tears on edges and is not price-clipped. Red cloth.

The author was a White Russian Cossack officer who at the end of the revolution found himself with his regiment in Chinese Turkestan. He was briefly an officer in the Chinese army eventually arriving in Shanghai from where he determined to travel around the world. Initially he set out on a bicycle, changing it for a second-hand motor-bicycle in Singapore. On reaching Karachi he was provided with a brand new British Ariel motor-bicycle by the Ariel company. He completed the world tour  arriving back in Shanghai two years later. All this time he was travelling on a ‘Nansen Passport’ issued to those who had effectively become stateless.  Book No. 13113.

Price : £150.00

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