num_pages: 317
description: Pp. xviii, 317; 33 photo-plates, 4 full page maps. Publisher's original black cloth, lettered in silver on the spine, color pictorial dust jacket, lg 8vo (9.25 x 6.25 inches). Meyer participated in four expeditions through China, Siberia, Russia, Manchuria, Turkestan and Mongolia collecting agricultural plants such as fruits, nuts and grains. Many of the more than 2,500 plants he introduced are still in use in agriculture today. Meyer disappeared off a steamer on the Yangtze River on June 1, 1918 - his body was never found. No ownership marks.
language: English
title: Frank N. Meyer: Plant Hunter in Asia
titlecomplete: Frank N. Meyer: Plant Hunter in Asia
ratings_count: 6
publisher: Iowa State Pr