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Kingdon Ward, F.

Plant Hunter's Paradise

1937

68.62 €

Horizon Books

(Toronto, Canada)

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Year of publication
1937
Place of printing
London. Jonathan Cape
Author
Kingdon Ward, F.
Edition
First edition.
Keyword
Travel - Asia Plant Hunting Burma
Languages
English
First edition
Yes

Description

8vo [20.5 x 14 cm]; 347 pp, frontis, 12 other plates, 2 folding maps, appendices. original cloth, gilt spine title lettering, one of the blank front free endpapers removed leaving one blank endpaper, otherwise a clean near fine copy, covers bright, no ownership marks. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Traveling in the mountains and valleys of Burma and adjacent areas, including the unexplored country on the Burma-Tibet frontier, in 1922, 1926 and 1930-31, this famous botanical explorer describes plants, nature and native customs in his usual readable way. There are appendices on zoological specimens collected and new plants he introduced to Europe that he found in Burma.
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