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Lancaster, Roy

Plant Hunting in Nepal

1981

46.06 €

Horizon Books

(Toronto, Canada)

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Year of publication
1981
Place of printing
London. Croom Helm
Author
Lancaster, Roy
Keyword
Travel - Asia Plant Hunting
Languages
English

Description

8vo [24 x 16 cm]; 194 pp, color illustrations from photos on 20 plates, 39 drawings in text, maps, list of seeds collected, glossary, bibliog, plant index. original cloth, gilt spine title lettering, fine in fine dj (not price clipped). A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Travels in East Nepal by a group of horticultural botanists, searching for seeds for western gardens, resulted in many new plants being introduced, several for the first time. The author also describes the occurrence of many western plants that originated in the Himalaya. The party visited the little known Jaljale Himal where the bizarre snowball plant the noble rhubarb were found, later visiting Topke Gola where they found the rare golden edelweiss. Included are adventures with and descriptions of the local people.