The Edible Jungle Fruits

[1944] Small, 26pp, stapled booklet with 12 full page colour plates of botanical illustrations, text in blue. In stiff card covers, soiled, marked and rubbed on edges. The first couple of pages have a mild crease, and generally dulled and a little spotting internally, else neat and clean. A booklet issued by the General Chief of Staff in India as an aid to identification of the commonest fruits in the jungles of Burma (now Myanmar) , Siam (Thailand) and Malay (largely Malaysia). A survival guide for British troops trapped or cut off in the jungles of Southeast Asia during the second world war. 24mo.