Little explored and virtually inaccessable, the Tsangpo Gorge in south-east Tibet is the world's deepest gorge. This book, with over 250 colour photographs, is the facinating account of plant hunter and explorer Frank Kingdon Ward's most important expedition into the gorge. First published in 1926 it has been long out of print. The authors spent 10 years retracing the route of the 1924-5 expedition and managed to reach further into this magical and partly explored land, this is their account.
Hardback. 336 pages.
Seeds of Adventure In Search of Plants is a well illustrated book which tells the story of the extensive travels of the authors in search of hardy plants. The plant explorers describe sixteen journeys, often arduous, sometimes dangerous and occasionally funny, that resulted in a host of seeds worth treasuring and propagating from amoung the wild flowers of the Himalaya and the high peaks of western China and Turkey. On nearly every expedition they explored terretory where no western plant hunters had been since such great explores as Frank Kingdon Ward, and some of the trails they followed were so remote and rough that they had never before been botanised.
Hardback. 416 pages. NEW.
This book charts the history of botanic gardens from their beginnings in the sixteenth century at the Universities of Padua and Pisa to the most innovative gardens of today. With text from the curators and directors of some of the world's formost botanic gardens interspersed with over 80 captivating profiles of some of the world's most important institutions.
Hardback. 296 pages. NEW.
Two centuries of natural history drawings culled from the rare books collections of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and the Smithsonian Institution libraries. This superb collection features the works of four naturalists. Maria Sibylla Merian, E.A. Seguy, Dr. Robert Thornton and Jean Jules Linden. A very beautiful book.
Hardback. 300 pages. NEW.
China is truly a plantsman's paradise with literally thousands of species. This book combines accounts of Roy Lancaster's many journeys through China. Detailed descriptions of plants and their habitat are interspersed with facinating anecdotes from his travels. First published in 1989 with many pictures in black and white. This completely revised new edition is in colour throughout and includes hundreds of new pictures. This is an eminently readable account of a facinating country, its people, and the plants that have done so much to enrich our gardens.
Garden Art Press. Hardback. 512 pages. NEW.
The Vortex of Life Nature's Patterns in Space and Time by Lawrence Edwards. The author, already known for his work on bud shapes, suggests that there are universal laws which guide an organism's growth and predetermined patterns. His work has profound implications for those working in genetics and stem cell research. Floris Books, Edinburgh, 2nd edition, 2006.
Softback, illustrated, 381 pages. NEW
