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First published in 1926, this is the fascinating account of plant-hunter and explorer Frank Kingdon Ward's most important epedition. Kenneth Cox, Kenneth Storm,

"This new edition contains the original Kingdon Ward text (with about fifty of his own photographs from the archive at the Royal Geographical Society) and exten

'Magnificent ... this book is unlikely to be surpassed' Telegraph This is the first major history of the Himalaya: an epic story of peoples, cultures and advent

"From the towering Burmese magnificum, with its three-foot-diameter trunk and its masses of sweet-smelling purple flowers, to the potted pink azalea, glowing li