Far Ridges: A record of travel in North-Eastern Burma 1938-39

Far Ridges was written by John Keith Stanford OBE MC (29 April 1892 – 24 September 1971) was a British civil servant who worked in Burma and wrote several books on sport, humour, and natural history.  Stanford was born in Aldringham, Suffolk and educated at Rugby School and St. John's College, Oxford. He was commissioned into the Suffolk Regiment in 1915 and was attached to the Tank Corps from 1917. At the end of the First World War he held the rank of captain.

Appointed to the Indian Civil Service (Burma services) on 24 October 1919, he arrived in India on 24 December 1919. He married Evelyn Lushington née Hirst just before his move to India but the marriage failed and they had a child in 1922. After a divorce he married his Eleanor, née Davies, in 1927. Following his time in Prome & Insein District, he played a part in the suppression of the Burma Rebellion 1930–31. He was awarded an O.B.E., 1932. He retired in 1938 and then took part in Vernay-Cutting expedition to the North-East Burma Hills' which is the subject of Far Ridges. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._K._Stanford

This first edition hardback is in very good condition with some fading to the spine.  Pages are free of foxing or spotting.