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Kingdon-Ward Frank

Burma's Icy Mountains. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION

Jonathan Cape, 1949

154.10 €

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(Devon, United Kingdom)

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Year of publication
1949
Author
Kingdon-Ward Frank
Publishers
Jonathan Cape
Keyword
travel, exploration, botany, plant-hunting, burma, arakan, myanmar, kingdon ward, frank kingdon ward
Languages
English

Description

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.