1936 Kingdon Ward - REMOTE TIBET - Botanical Explorations - COLOR ROUTE MAP - 11

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or ...rare books at fair prices...!Search by TopicAfricaAmerica - NorthAmerica -SouthArabia - Middle EastArctic - AntarcticAsia - CentralAsia - China & JapanAsia - SoutheastAustralia & PacificBibliographiesEuropeGlobesGraphic ArtsLiteratureMaps & PrintsMountaineeringNatural HistoryRussiaSciencesSigned & InscribedSir Richard F. BurtonTitle: Botanical and Geographical Explorations in Tibet.Author: Kingdon Ward.Publisher: London: Royal Geographical Society, 1936.Item is in ORIGINAL Condition, With Blue Wrappers - As Issued, Complete with All the Ads!!!Notes & Condition: Renowned explorer and plant-hunter Frank Kingdom-Ward recounts riveting highlights of his 1935 expedition. As significant for his geographic revelations as for the wealth of plant species with which he returned, this journey is replete with both. Features fascinating depictions of the southeastern corner of Tibet, as far as the Salween river, a remote area not previously known or mapped in the west. Includes the Loro chu, the Char chu, the sacred lake Tsoga beyond Migyitun and the Tsari river; the gorgo of the Po Yigrong and the large villages of Temo Chemna, Tage, Ragoonka, Nyöme and Nyöto, the Gyalam. Kingdom-Ward was also able to confirm the separation of Tibetan flora into two zones - a dry flora and a wet forest flora corresponding to the two main divisions of the country.Lively descriptions of the grand mountain ranges he traversed, the hardships overcome and the plants, fauna and people he encountered are complemented by spectacular photographs. A gripping and informative read for the Tibetologist, botanist, or armchair explorer.28 pages. Plus photographic plates and a fold-out colour map measuring approximately 13 x 9.75 inches (33 x 25cm). Original condition with blue wrappers, titles to front, and containing all the ads. This is a complete issue, seldom found in such good and original condition.Francis Kingdon-Ward (1885-1958) was an English botanist, explorer, plant collector and author. He went on around 25 expeditions over a period of nearly fifty years, exploring Tibet, North Western China, Burma (Myanmar) and Assam (now part of North Eastern India). In Burma he met and conducted some research into forestry and plants in the country with native botanist Chit Ko Ko.He survived many accidents on his expeditions including being impaled on a bamboo spike, falling off a cliff (stopped by a tree growing from the cliff), lost for two days with no food, tent crushed by a tree in a storm, and he was close to the epicentre of an earthquake (registering 9.6 on the Richter scale) on 15 August 1950 during an expedition in Assam.In addition to his professional activities as a botanist, in the 1930s Kingdon-Ward also served as a spy for the British India Office. In 1935, Kingdon-Ward was arrested by Tibetans after he crossed the Sela pass into the Tawang tract ( now Tawang District of Arunachal Pradesh,India) despite being refused permission to do so by the Tibetan authorities who were then administering Tawang. Tibetans protested this violation of their border to the British mission then visiting Lhasa. Kingdon-Ward was quickly released, but this incident led the British to investigate the status of the border, and it was discovered that the entire Tawang tract had been ceded to British India by Tibet by the Simla Convention negotiated by Sir Henry McMahon with the Tibetans in 1914. read more

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