Title: In the footsteps of Augustine Henry and his Chinese plant collectors /
Authors: O'Brien, Seamus.; Lancaster, Roy.
Publisher: Garden Art Press,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Henry, Augustine,; Plant collectors China History.; Plant collecting China History.; Botany China
Abstract: "Augustine Henry is one of the most famous of the pioneering plant hunters to have travelled to China during the latter part of the 19th century, playing a key role in establishing the basis for our present knowledge of the Chinese flora. His account of the destruction of great tracts of China's forests prompted later plant hunters like E. H. Wilson, George Forrest, Frank Kingdon Ward and William Purdom to venture to China in the name of plant exploration and introduction. 'In the Footsteps of Augustine Henry' tells the fascinating story of his life and work and documents the expeditions undertaken by a dedicated team of botanists and horticulturalists in the 1990s to revisit Henry's routes, many of which were in danger of being flooded with the installation of the Three Gorges Dam across the Yangtze River"--Publisher's description.
Contents: Foreword / by Roy Lancaster -- Introduction -- Famine and farewell : a new life in China -- Upon the fairy raft : exploring Yichang -- Tracing the seasons through Yichang and Badong -- To the roof of central China -- A pilgrimage to Yichang -- To the snows of Tibet with Antwerp Pratt -- A transfer to Hainan -- To the tropics of Taiwan -- To Taiwan by way of Shanghai and Hong Kong -- To the wilds of Yunnan -- A transfer to Simao -- End of an odyssey : Yunnan Province -- Henry the forester -- Epilogue -- Augustine Henry's plants -- Chinese place names -- Augustine Henry (1857-1930) : a chronology.