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.
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.
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