Identifier: infarthestburmar00ward (find matches)
Title: In farthest Burma : the record of an arduous journey of exploration and research through the unknown frontier territory of Burma and Tibet
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Ward, Francis Kingdon, 1885-1958
Subjects: Botany
Publisher: London : Seeley, Service
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ONTAWO IN FARTHEST BURMA CHAPTER I IN THE JUNGLE THE fateful year 1914 found me back in Burmaready to pursue my botanical researches inanother direction. Throughout 1913 I had continued those investiga-tions, begun in 1911, of the flora of North-WestYun-nan, to which reference is made in a previouswork*—investigations carried into South-East Tibeton the one hand and as far as the frontiers of re-motest Burma on the other. I now determined tosee something of the Burmese hinterland fromwithin. In coming to this decision I was partly influencedby recent events on the North-East Frontier, whichbesides drawing my attention to a previously un-explored region had made access to it easier thanhitherto. For several years past the nebulous country whereBurma, China, Tibet and Assam meet had been thescene of political collisions which threatened to blazeup in the firmament of Indian frontier politics as an 1 The Land of the Blue Poppy, by F. Kingdon Ward. CambridgeUniversity Press, 1913. B 17

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