Plantsmans Paradise: Travels in China

by Roy Lancaster and Ray Lancaster

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1851495150
• ISBN13: 9781851495153
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: Acc Art Books
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 6.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 9.6" x 11.9"

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.