Book ID: 72298
McLean, Brenda
A Pioneering Plantsman: A. K. Bulley and the Great Plant Hunters. 1997. illustr. 200 p. Cloth.
Bulley paid professional plant hunters to collect in remotemountain areas of Western China and the Himalayas, Tibet and Burma... inpromising places not yet harvested. It was Bulley's fortune and foresight which sent out the then unknown George Forrest to collectin the mountains of Yunnan. He launched Frank Kingdon Ward on hisplant-hunting career in China and Tibet, sent Roland E. Cooper toSikkim and Bhutan, and helped finance Reginald Farrer's collectingin China and Burma. This book tells the story of Bulley`s passionfor plants, his love for 'out of the way' ones, preferably alpines and hardy plants...