Author: KINGDON-WARD Frank
Title: Burma's Icy Mountains. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
Description: Jonathan Cape,, [1949]. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 15 plates and 2 folding maps on japon; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, blue top, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. One of the author's scarcest works, chronicling two important expeditions (the Vernay-Cutting and another) into Burma's 20,000ft mountains between 1937 and 1939. His final journey was completed immediately before the outbreak of war. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Herbert 122; Neate 422; Schweinfurth: XIX; Yakushi K201.

Keywords: travel, exploration, botany, plant-hunting, burma, arakan, myanmar, kingdon ward, frank kingdon ward


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