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Livres anciens et modernes

Kingdon Ward, F.

Plant Hunter's Paradise

1938

118,44 €

Horizon Books

(Toronto, Canada)

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Détails

Année
1938
Lieu d'édition
New York. The Macmillan Comany
Auteur
Kingdon Ward, F.
Edition
First American edition.
Thème
Travel - Asia Plant Hunting Burma
Langues
Anglais
Premiére Edition
Oui

Description

8vo [20.5 x 14 cm]; 347 pp, frontis, 12 other plates, 2 folding maps, appendices. original cloth, spine title lettering, dj (chipped at spine end, price clipped), clean and fine in good+ dj. 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.