B0218 – Burma’s Icy Mountains

Planteekspeditioner og indsamling i Burma (Myanmar). Genoptryk af 1949 udgaven.

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 entrepid explorer and plant hunter Frank Kindon-Ward, prior to the outbreak of WWII. Not publeshed until the post war period some ten years later, the book is of particular interest in light of the recent traumatic history of this region, and has become one of the author’s most sought titles. Aside from its relevance to those interested in Kindon-Ward’s own focus on the rich botanical diversity of this inaccessible region, his vivid descriptions of the terrain, the fauna and the people – including Tibetans, Lisu, Lashi, Kachin and Nung – encountered enroute make this true chronicle of hardship and perseveverance comes alive.