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  • On the Road to Tibet
    Frank Kingdon-Ward
    Frank Kingdon-Ward was a dedicated explorer of western China and Central Asia as well as being a master botanist, and this book documents his first trip in 1909 and 1910, a year-long adventure through northwest China, Gansu, eastern Tibet and Sichuan. This is a unique account of a journey through remote territories, meetings with Tibetan lamas and warlords, and several scrapes ...
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    20,01 €

  • A Plant Hunter In Tibet
    Frank Kingdon-Ward
    This account of plant-hunter and explorer Frank Kingdon-Ward’s 1933 expedition to the southeastern corner of Tibet was as significant for his geographic revelations as it was for the wealth of plant species with which he returned. On this journey Kingdon-Ward reached as far as the Salween River, a particularly remote area of Tibet not previously known or mapped in the West.His ...
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    29,11 €

  • Return to the Irrawaddy
    Frank Kingdon-Ward
    The legendary botanist and explorer records the details of his last expedition, in 1953, to his beloved northern Burma, prior to his death five years later. Frank Kingdon-Ward combined an insatiable taste for adventure, and the persistence to overcome any danger in his path—not to mention recalcitrant officials who attempted to block it—with the raconteur’s gift to recount his ...
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    28,89 €

  • In Farthest Burma
    Frank Kingdon-Ward
    In 1914, the British plant-collector and explorer, Kingdon-Ward, undertook an expedition of some eight month’s duration along Burma’s eastern frontier and across the headwaters of the Irrawaddy River. Kingdon-Ward's travel was mostly on foot, through some of the most rugged and impenetrable terrain on earth; his legendary courage and endurance enabled him to prevail, despit...
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    29,24 €

  • Burma’s Icy Mountains
    Frank Kingdon-Ward
    Burma’s Icy Mountains describes two expeditions to Burma—one on his own and a second, with a larger American party close to the Burma-China border—completed by the intrepid British explorer and plant hunter, Kingdon-Ward, prior to the outbreak of WWII. Not published until the post war period some ten years later, the book is of particular interest in light of the more recent tr...
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    28,79 €