Product Description: In 1911, Francis Kingdon Ward (1885-1958) set off on his first solo expedition and collected hundreds of plant species, many previously unknown. From Burma, he headed into the Hengduan Mountains of north-western Yunnan province, exploring along the Mekong, Yangtze and Salween rivers in the region between eastern Tibet and western Sichuan...read more

An anthology of writings by the noted British explorer and plant collector describes his twenty-two expeditions throughout Tibet, China, and Southeast Asia in search of rare and elusive species of plants and his adventures druing his journeys. Original. 15,000 first printing.

Product Description: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III ON THE LI-TI-FING North of Tali are bare rounded hills of red earth, and richly cultivated plains tucked in amongst the mountains where, mile on mile, wave fields of kidney-bean, wheat, and blue-flowered flax...read more