FROM CHINA TO HKAMTI LONG.
KINGDON-WARD, F.
Verkäufer RARE ORIENTAL BOOK CO., ABAA, ILAB, Aptos, CA, USA
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AbeBooks-Verkäufer seit 19. Juni 1997
Verkäufer RARE ORIENTAL BOOK CO., ABAA, ILAB, Aptos, CA, USA
Verkäuferbewertung 4 von 5 Sternen
AbeBooks-Verkäufer seit 19. Juni 1997
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London 1924, Arnold. Black cloth, 137p., index, map, very good, 20 b.w. photos. WITH THE AUTHOR'S SIGNED, CHRISTMAS & NEW YEARS GREETING POST CARD [1948] enclosed. * * RARE FIRST & ONLY EDITION * * . *** **** *** . . A SUPERB PRIMARY RESOURCE . . . BY THE CELEBRATED PLANT HUNTER'S SECOND TRECK TO YUNNAN . . . A SUPERB ACCOUNT COVERING HIS MARCH OVERLAND . . . TO INDIA FROM LIKIANG & BORDERS TO YUNNAN IN 1921-22 . . . FIRST & ONLY EDITION, NEVER REPRINTED ! . *** The celebrated plant hunter & botanist's adventure in 1922 . Beginning in China, from the Yangtze westward to where the rivers of S.E. Asia depart from Tibet, to the jungles and headwaters of the Irrawaddy, Burma's greatest river. . This project of the Royal Society was to record rapid changes in landscape, climate & botany in that lush area, & to collect rare & unusual plants. Ward's course was through Yunnan, Kinkiangkai, Yungning, Likiang, Atuntze, Nonghkai, down to Myitkyina. Traveling through the Tibetan tribal areas and mountains into Burma, fording the Mekong and Yangtze rivers, ending in 1923. . One of the author's earliest and most scarce titles. He spent most of his life in the mountain regions of Assam, South-Eastern Tibet, West China and in North Burma. . *** Color photos are posted to our website. . *. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 85074901
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