This book successfully combines a most enjoyable and detailed account of the well-known author's many journeys through China. Roy Lancaster follows in the footsteps of the great Victorian plant hunters and describes, in this, his magnum opus, some 1,000 different plants in their natural habitat. This is a book about plants from a country so rich in variety that there are 50 percent more species on one mountain in China than in the whole of the British Isles. Indeed, the wide range of climatic conditions in a country as vast ...
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This book successfully combines a most enjoyable and detailed account of the well-known author's many journeys through China. Roy Lancaster follows in the footsteps of the great Victorian plant hunters and describes, in this, his magnum opus, some 1,000 different plants in their natural habitat. This is a book about plants from a country so rich in variety that there are 50 percent more species on one mountain in China than in the whole of the British Isles. Indeed, the wide range of climatic conditions in a country as vast as China makes this book relevant to gardeners everywhere.
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Second (1993) edition. This is a very large light olive green cloth hardcover with gold lettering on spine and front cover, in dust jacket. Book as new. Dust jacket has the slightest wear, no rips. Very nice. HEAVY/OVERSIZE. **We provide professional service and individual attention to your order, daily shipments, and sturdy packaging. FREE TRACKING WITHIN USA.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. 4to. HEAVY. 520pp, addendum, indexes, bibliography, glossary, num bw & col ills, endpaper maps. Or gren cloth in jacket. Light edge wear to jacket, prev owner name on verso of frontis. A pracrical assessmant of the plants that are of either ornamental merit otr botanical interest to gardeners in the west, and the author's extensive travels as he follows in the footsteps of the great Victorian plant hunters and descibes, in this his magnum opus, some 1000 plants in their natural habitat.
