tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9406385.post4113903710297192932..comments2024-03-12T23:17:02.558+11:00Comments on In the footsteps of Joseph Rock <br>重走洛克路: In the footsteps of Frank Kingdon Wardmutikonkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08013127024190330396noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9406385.post-71691256530993860352012-09-11T20:39:29.605+10:002012-09-11T20:39:29.605+10:00Hi Olli
I will have to look up the modern names -...Hi Olli<br /><br />I will have to look up the modern names - I tend to use the older traditional ones (Tsawarong instead of Chawalong, for instance).mutikonkahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08013127024190330396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9406385.post-19487894758438040552012-08-21T18:41:51.729+10:002012-08-21T18:41:51.729+10:00Hi Michael. Just found your blog. I am working on ...Hi Michael. Just found your blog. I am working on a biography of my Grandfather Frank Kingdon-Ward which I have decided to put online as I can't imagine any publisher considering it these days.<br />Since it is going to be a website I am creating google maps showing the locations on his journeys but my goodness it is a difficult task for me. <br />Half the place names have changed beyond recognition and he talks about villages of twenty families that, to quote Terry Pratchett, would barely show up on a map of the village. <br />I shall probably be scouring your text for clues now. I've already pinpointed a couple of places I couldn't find.<br />If you happen to know what the modern equivalents of Tsu-kou (Tzeku), Sie-la (Si la), Mu-la-tong, La-kor-ah, or even Menkong (Menkung) are it would help quite a bit with the 1911-1912 map.<br />Sorry, is a bit cheeky to ask. :o) <br />I have uploaded the relevant map to www.french4tots.co.uk/kingdon-ward/images/maps/FKW-BP-Map-IV-P69.jpg in case you don't mind helping me out a bit. <br />:o)Ollihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03881507926926194933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9406385.post-2251368387937208922009-05-25T00:06:44.513+10:002009-05-25T00:06:44.513+10:00Hi Rod
This website is the all the stuff I have p...Hi Rod<br /><br />This website is the all the stuff I have published about my travels in Yunnan and Sichuan. Most of it has followed Rock's routes, but these have criss crossed thoe made by others such as Kingdon Ward and Handel Mazzetti.mutikonkahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08013127024190330396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9406385.post-62401325392371562452009-05-19T02:11:00.000+10:002009-05-19T02:11:00.000+10:00Hopefull in Hope
Hi Peter, Looked at you 197 pictu...Hopefull in Hope<br />Hi Peter, Looked at you 197 pictures. They are great and very informative. Keep up the good work.<br /><br />Btw, you look as if you've followed the routes of Ward & Rock unlike the TeaHorse road author whose book I find a bit suspect about his travelling these routes.<br /><br />cheers Rod Fowlerhopefullhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02193254714371818420noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9406385.post-7130558413272802382009-05-02T04:00:00.000+10:002009-05-02T04:00:00.000+10:00Hi Peter,
I’ve just finished reading Ward’s “The ...Hi Peter,<br /><br />I’ve just finished reading Ward’s “The Land of the Blue Poppy” (originally written in 1913 and re-issued in 1973) and found it a fascinating account of his journey from Yunnan to Burma through Eastern Tibet. Your photos I found extremely helpful to see the landscape he traveled through as the ones in his book do not well convey these perspectives. He accounts of the Geology, geography, biogeography and anthropology of these regional I found of great interest, and this book provides an ‘historic’ introduction to these remote and little known areas in their earlier pre-modern lifestyles. In that respect it is a classic. Rock’s writings, of which I’m also reading, come ten to twenty years later and he seems less of a descriptive observer than Ward. Ward also has some prescient observations (pre-Wagener) in his last chapter on convergent plate boundaries role in tectonic uplifts of the Himalayas and Eastern Himalayas. His speculations on the role of orographic precipitation in determining the changes in the flora at the same latitude and elevations between the Salween & Mekong divides was also very astute for the time and accurate.<br /><br />Your own journey in this area sounds very interesting, have you written and/or published anything on it yet?<br /><br />Cheers Rod Fowler PhD, Hope, B.C.hopefullhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02193254714371818420noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9406385.post-39840518272949822862009-01-21T23:40:00.000+11:002009-01-21T23:40:00.000+11:00Thanks _ I will be posting more pictures soon of p...Thanks _ I will be posting more pictures soon of places such as Qiunatong that Kingdon Ward visited. At the moment they're on my Flickr site here:<BR/>http://www.flickr.com/photos/10816453@N00/sets/72157612620811609/mutikonkahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08013127024190330396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9406385.post-8310381653809641582009-01-21T23:25:00.000+11:002009-01-21T23:25:00.000+11:00I am just getting into Frank Kingdon Ward, having ...I am just getting into Frank Kingdon Ward, having just finished "A Plant Hunter in Tibet", and I find your blog incredibly interesting. Just ordered "Mystery Rivers of Tibet"<BR/><BR/>GregGreg McCannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17556013396459386357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9406385.post-89803050510092824822008-04-18T16:34:00.000+10:002008-04-18T16:34:00.000+10:00Hi PeterI should remake this blog on some other Ch...Hi Peter<BR/><BR/>I should remake this blog on some other China-compatible website but I'm too lazy. Hope you get chance to go to Muli - it should not be a problem to go from Lugu Lake, there's no checkpoints on the path! There is a rough jeep track but it goes the long way round - better to hike. Must read more about Geiorge Forrest - I'm just reading up on Kingdon Ward.<BR/><BR/>cheers<BR/><BR/>Michaelmutikonkahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08013127024190330396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9406385.post-1046726907007912812008-04-17T06:14:00.000+10:002008-04-17T06:14:00.000+10:00Thanks for an exceptionally good blog. However, be...Thanks for an exceptionally good blog. However, being in China too it is no easy to enter it, the page keeps reloading and I cant see the pictures; even this comment I had to make through a friend of mine in Europe. However we seem to share a similar passion to the early history of Yunnan. I was just down in Tengchong and tried to locate the grave of George Forrest. In two weeks I probably head up to Lugu lake, possibly Muli too. Indeed, if only possible to enter the area right now. Im also writing about my encounters, the blogprovider is not good though, I cant paste pics in the writing, but at least its not blocked.<BR/> <BR/>I will link latest entry on George Forrest down in this comment. If you come around to Kunming one day, and if you feel so, you can always pass a note. I dont know if you have read Jim Goodmans book on Joseph Rock yet, but I highly recommend it.<BR/> <BR/>Peter (Kunming)<BR/> <BR/>http://www.thoughts.com/Nomen/blog/the-search-for-the-foreign-cemetery-85132/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com