Chong-hwan Ch'a

A Field Trip to Explore the Plant Ecology of Mt. Baekdu/Paektu with Dr. Cha Jong-hwan [or Chong-hwan Ch'a] - 1998, in Korean

Seoul: Yemundang, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. 9 x 6.5 inches, publisher's green cloth in dust jacket, very good, light wear to jacket, ownership signature of Ke Chung Kim, emeritus professor at Penn State in entomology and biodiversity. 598 pp, lightly illustrated, text in KOREAN. Mount Paektu or Mount Baekdu is an active stratovolcano on the Chinese–North Korean border. In China, it is known as Changbai Mountain. At 2,744 m (9,003 ft), it is the tallest mountain in North Korea and Northeast China and the tallest mountain of the Baekdu-daegan and Changbai mountain ranges. The highest peak, called Janggun Peak, belongs to North Korea. The mountain notably features a caldera that contains a large crater lake called Heaven Lake, which serves as the source of the Songhua, Tumen, and Yalu rivers. Korean and Manchu people assign a mythical quality to the mountain and its lake, and consider the mountain to be their ancestral homeland. Very good / very good. Item #h45854

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