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Kingdon Ward, F.

Plant Hunter's Paradise

1937

140,06 €

Horizon Books

(Toronto, Canadá)

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Año de publicación
1937
Lugar de impresión
London. Jonathan Cape
Autor
Kingdon Ward, F.
Edición
First edition.
Materia
Travel - Asia Plant Hunting Burma
Idiomas
Inlgés
Primera edición

Descripción

8vo [20.5 x 14 cm]; 347 pp, frontis, 12 other plates, 2 folding maps. original cloth, gilt spine title lettering, dj (chipped, worn at edge, not price clipped), near fine and clean copy in good dj. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Travelling 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. The American edition was first published the following year.