Plantsman’s Paradise: Travels in China [Hardcover]

Roy Lancaster (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 25, 2006

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 the plants that are either of ornamental merit or botanical interest to gardeners in the West. Roy Lancaster describes some 1,000 different plants in their natural habitat and provides an eminently readable account of a fascinating country, its people, and the plants that have enriched the gardens of Europe and North America. Hundreds of Lancaster's own attractive and colourful photographs are reproduced, interspersed with fascinating descriptions and anecdotes from his travels. This is a book about plants from a country so rich in variety that there are 50% more species on one mountain in China than there are in the whole of the British Isles. Indeed, the wide range of climatic conditions in a country as vast as China makes this book relevant to all gardeners, be they from Norway or Spain, the United

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About the Author

Roy Lancaster has had a long and distinguished career as a plantsman and is known internationally for his writing, lecturing, television work and as a regular panellist on Radio 4's 'Gardeners' Question Time'.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 512 pages
• Publisher: Antique Collectors Club Dist; 1 edition (September 25, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1851495150
• ISBN-13: 978-1851495153
• Product Dimensions: 12 x 9.7 x 2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,058,773 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Visual delights, February 25, 2009

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This review is from: Plantsman’s Paradise: Travels in China (Hardcover)

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.