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Book Description Hardbound. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First English Edition. A grand photographic essay on China's most culturally and geographically diverse province. Straddling south China, the eastern edge of the Tibetan plateau and the northern jungles of southeast Asia, Yunnan is home to 25 major minority ethnic groups and encompasses some of the most spectacular terrain in Asia. Essays describing the land, the peoples, the religions, agriculture and the future of Yunnan are profusely and sensitively illustrated by the Ungers' beautiful photography. This volume includes a treasury of images of a region on the brink of modernization and change that is bound to have a lasting impact on an age-old way of life. 260 pp., 335 colour photos, 2 maps, historical chronology, bibliography. Size: 30 x 24 cm. Seller Inventory # 001985