Plantsmans Paradise: Travels in China
This book successfully combines a most enjoyable and detailed account of the well-known author's many journeys through China. First and foremost, Travels in China provides a practical assessment of the plants that are either of ornamental merit or botanical interest to gardeners in the West. Roy Lancaster describes some 1,000 different plants in their natural habitat and provides an eminently readable account of a fascinating country, its people,...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1851495150
ISBN13:9781851495153
Release Date:September 2006
Publisher:Acc Art Books
Length:512 Pages
Weight:6.93 lbs.
Dimensions:1.8" x 9.6" x 11.9"
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Visual delights
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
For anyone interested in the origins and history of garden plants, this is a wonderful book, beautifully illustrated with many hundreds of photographs. As well as plants and their natural settings, the author describes much of the history of Western plant collecting in China. The photographs of plants and their settings are often stunning.
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