In the Land of the Blue Poppies the Collected Plant-Hunting Writings of Frank Kingdon Ward

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During the first years of the twentieth century, the British plant collector and explorer Frank Kingdon Ward went on twenty-four impossibly daring expeditions throughout Tibet, China, and Southeast Asia, in search of rare and elusive species of plants. He was responsible for the discovery of numerous varieties previously unknown in Europe and America, including the legendary Tibetan blue poppy, and the introduction of their seeds into the world's gardens. Kingdon Ward's accounts capture all the romance of his wildly adventurous expeditions, whether he was swinging across a bottomless gorge on a cable of twisted bamboo strands or clambering across a rocky scree in fear of an impending avalanche. Drawn from writings out of print for almost seventy-five years, this new collection, edited and introduced by professional horticulturalist and "House & Garden" columnist Tom Christopher, returns Kingdon Ward to his deserved place in the literature of discovery and the literature of the garden.

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Publisher: Modern Library

Release: May 10, 2014

ISBN: 1299253482

ISBN 13: 9781299253483

In the Land of the Blue Poppies the Collected Plant-Hunting Writings of Frank Kingdon Ward

Tom Christopher

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