Roy Lancaster Travels in China: A Plantsman's Paradise

by Roy Lancaster and Ray Lancaster

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1851491759
• ISBN13: 9781851491759
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: ACC Distribution
• Length: 530 Pages
• Weight: 5.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 8.9" x 11.1"

Customer Reviews

Visual delights

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.