Plantsman’s Paradise. Travels in China. NEW. University of Chicago Press

University of Chicago Press

with a key to the genera

They were active during the golden age of botanical discovery in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries

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ISBN 9780473688240

Plantsman’s Paradise. Travels in China. NEW. University of Chicago PressRoy Lancaster. Accounts of the authors journeys in China with descriptions of the plants of interest and their habitat, interspersed with anecdotes of his travels. First published in 1989 this completely revised second edition is illustrated with over 1000 of Lancasters own colour photographs. An eminently readable account of a fascinating country, its people, and the plants that have enriched Western gardens. A very large heavy book. Garden Art