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. First and foremost, Travels in China provides a practical assessment of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1851490191
• ISBN13: 9781851490196
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Antique Collectors Club Ltd
• Length: 516 Pages
• Weight: 5.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.3" x 1.8" x 8.8"

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.