A full and first account of an eighteen months' search in south eastern Tibet for the source of the Salween, the Black River of Tibet, which won the author the Murchison Grant of the Royal Geographical Society.

Ronald John Henry Kaulback was a British explorer, botanist, and geographer. After studying at the Univerity of Cambridge and learning surveying at the Royal Geographical Society, he accompanied Frank Kingdon-Ward on an expedition to Tibet.

Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1930, First American edition. No dust jacket, red cloth faded color, black & white illustrations throughout, 3 maps, good condition.