Author: Ward, F.Kingdon.
Title: In farthest Burma. The record of an arduous journey of exploration and research through the unknown frontier territory of Burma and Tibet. [First edition].
Description: London, Seeley, Service And Co. Limited, 1921. 311 pp. B./w. frontispiece, 2 b./w.maps (incl. 1 large fold. map) & 22 b./w. photographes on [15] plts. Orig. publisher's harcover binding (dark green / brown linen with light green lettering / decoration). 8vo. - Owner's stamp on first free endpaper; sl. worn along the extrimities; top of spine sl. dam.; bottom of spine dam.; annot. on half-title; some foxing.Francis Kingdon-Ward, born Francis Kingdon Ward, (6 November 1885 - 8 April 1958) was an English botanist, explorer, plant collector and author. He was the son of Cambridge Botanists Harry Marshall Ward and Selina Ward b. Kingdon. He traveled as a gardener through the Himalayas and visited other places in Tibet, China, Burma and also Indonesia. In addition to his professional activities as a botanist, in the 1930s Kingdon-Ward also served as a spy for the British India Office. In 1935, Kingdon-Ward was arrested by Tibetans after he crossed the Sela pass into the Tawang tract.

Keywords: Ethnography Asia Burma Etnografie Azië Birma