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Apr 15, 2003 | ISBN 9780812967395 Buy
Oct 17, 2012 | ISBN 9780307828835 Buy
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Apr 15, 2003 | ISBN 9780812967395
Oct 17, 2012 | ISBN 9780307828835
A Modern Library Paperback OriginalDuring 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.
“If there is a better writer about the garden than he, I do not know who that would be. . . . This collection . . . is a joyous event.” —from the Preface by Jamaica Kincaid
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