B0228 – In the Land og The Blue Poppy

Plantejagt i Kina-Tibet.

During the first years of the twentieth century, the British pland collector and explorer Frank Kingdon Ward went on twenty-four ompossibly 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, wheather he was swinging across a bottomless gorge on a cable of twisted bamboo strands or climbering 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 proffesional horticulturalist and House & Garden columnist Tom Christopher, returns Kingdon Ward to his deserved place in the litturature of discovery and the litterature of the garden.

Frank Kingdon Ward was born in Manchester, England, in 1885. He was a proffesional plant collector and explorer for more than forty years and the author of more than twenty-five books, including The Riddle of the Tsangpo Gorges, recounting his journey into the world’s steepest river gorge. He died in 1958.