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First edition thus, 4to, pp. 319, [1]; map endpapers, extensively illustrated throughout in color and black & white; fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Kingdon-Ward's original (1926) text, 50 of his own photographs, a foreword by his widow Jean Rasmussan, a brief biography and over 250 colour photographs. Also with recent accounts of the expeditions by Ken Cox and Ken Storm Jr., and a photographic essay. This copy inscribed by Kenneth Storm, Jr. to Greg [Gamradt], Vietnam Vet, and the late proprietor of Books on the Orient. Kingdon-Ward's own account into the nether regions of Pemako, describing "what was undoubtedly [his] most ambitious and successful expedition in the many he made in the course of a long career as a plant-hunter . The Tsangpo is the great river of Tibet. For over 1000 miles it flows west to east, north of and parallel to the Great Himalaya Range . Its course roughly follows the boundary that marks the seam between the Indian and Eurasian continental plates . Collecting the glacial waters from the north slopes of the great Himalayan peaks, including Everest, the river spreads out for miles in shallow, braided channels, then plunges through short, rocky gorges. It passes to the south of Lhasa and continues to the east for another 300 miles, seeking a course to the sea through the mountains" (Riddle of the Tsangpo Gorges, ed. Ken Cox, pp. 16-26). Kingdon-Ward's "riddle" regarding the course of the Tsangpo went unsolved until 1998 when Ken Storm, Jr. and Ian Baker finally determined the river's actual route through the mountains, and their discovery there of a 110-foot waterfall, Hidden Falls.
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