Book ID: 36199
Lancaster,Roy
Travels in China.A Plantman's Paradise.1989. 413 colour illustrations. 253 black & white illustrations.516 p.4to.Cloth.
Roy Lancaster combines in this book a most enjoyable and detailedaccount of his journeys through China. First and foremost, Travels inChina provides a practical assessment of the plants that are either ofornamental merit or botanical interest to gardeners in the West, andfollows in the footsteps of the great Victorian plant hunters anddescribes some 1000 different plants in their natural habitat.