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Author : Francis Kingdon Ward
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Frank Kingdon Ward
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-17
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780307828835
A Modern Library Paperback Original During 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.
Author : Francis Kingdon Ward
Publisher : Minerva Press (UK)
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Travel
ISBN : UOM:39015004044502
Author : Frank Kingdon-Ward
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:760583568
Author : Francis Kingdon 1885-1958 Ward
Publisher : Franklin Classics
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0343070871
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Francis Kingdon Ward
Publisher : Nabu Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1295559129
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Author : Francis Kingdon 1885-1958 Ward
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1014122309
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Kathleen Willis Morton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780861715657
Katie Morton's son Liam was born with profound brain damage. When he died six-and-a-half weeks later, she searched for answers in books on grief and coping, but none seemed to address her situation. Without completely understanding why, Morton embarked on a wider search for solace. "The Blue Poppy and the Mustard Seed" takes readers along as she travels to foreign lands to illuminate her inner journey through emotional highs and lows. She interweaves what she witnesses -- simple rituals like children's baths and picnics, and rites of passage like birth and death -- with her own progress. In the process she discovers that the pain she has experienced is both unavoidable and necessary, a pivotal part of the process of healing that can lead to "a victorious kind of joy, of acceptance." In discovering herself, Morton shows readers suffering from similar tragedies how to endure world-shattering pain and come out whole.
Author : Bill Terry
Publisher : TouchWood Editions
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Meconopsis
ISBN : 1894898826
With wit and erudition, Bill Terry examines the world of the fabled Himalayan Blue Poppy and its relatives. Ranging from the slopes of the high Himalayas through the gardens of contemporary poppy lovers, Terry-himself an accomplished Meconopsis grower-also provides clear guidelines for the successful cultivation and propagation of these notoriously temperamental beauties. But buyer beware! Meconopsis obsession may ensue.'-Des Kennedy, author of "An Ecology of Enchantment" "In Blue Heaven," Bill Terry-a leading North American authority on Asiatic Poppies-tells the story of the enchanting Himalayan Blue Poppy. First discovered in Tibet in 1924, the poppy was soon introduced to cultivation and proved challenging and stubborn, some gardeners even believed the plant to be impossible to grow. Terry debunks this myth, relating his own encounters with the blue poppy and showing how, given a suitable climate, a patient and persistent gardener can raise this most alluring of perennial plants. Gorgeous photographs accompany the text throughout, leading to a visually stunning collection of images and stories, illuminating this rare and precious flower.
Author : Francis Kingdon Ward
Publisher : Serindia Publications, Inc.
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0906026229
The last of the great plant hunters, Frank Kingdon-Ward undertook 25 major expeditions over a period of nearly 50 years, and collected and numbered more than 23,000 plants. English gardens are still enriched by the poppies, lilies, primulas, rhododendrons and many other plants that he introduced.
Author : Jonathan Falla
Publisher : Delta
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307422804
Jonathan Falla weaves a powerful tale of love and war, exile and homecoming...and of one man’s desire to lose himself in a foreign land, only to find himself caught in a time of chaos and change. Blue Poppies The year is 1950 and, as the world recovers from the ravages of World War II, the Chinese army is perched on the border of a fragile land awaiting its destiny. Jamie Wilson, a young Scottish wireless operator and veteran of the war, has just arrived in the remote Tibetan village of Jyeko. He has come on business--to establish a radio outpost--but his journey will resonate much more deeply. Like those who have traveled to this place before him, Jamie, the Ying-gi-li, is mesmerized by the majestic mountain ranges and enigmatic people, but he will also find an uncommon refuge in its unyielding beauty and in the arms of the willful Puton, a young widow cast out by the people of Jyeko. Inexorably drawn together by a shared loneliness, Jamie and Puton discover a rare passion and the promise of reconnection and belonging--until the voice of Radio Peking crackles over the airwaves, announcing the imminent advance of the Chinese army. Amid the ensuing violence and tumult, Jamie and Puton must embrace their fate and that of the remarkable land that has brought them together. What lies before them and the people of Jyeko is a harrowing journey across a breathtaking landscape...and an extraordinary tale of pride and loyalty, survival and awakening.
Author : Thomas Pakenham
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-10
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780297866251
'The master. Puts all other modern tree-writers in the shade' John Lewis-Stempel, author of Meadowland Thomas Pakenham is an indefatigable champion of trees. In The Company of Trees he recounts his personal quest to establish a large arboretum on the family estate, Tullynally in Ireland; his forays to other tree-filled parks and plantations; his often hazardous seed-hunting expeditions; and his efforts to preserve magnificent old trees and historic woodlands. Whether writing about the terrible storms breaking the backs of hundred-year-old trees or a fire in the peat bog on Tullynally which threatens to spread to the main commercial spruce-woods, his fear of climate change and disease, or the sturdy young saplings giving him hope for the future, his book is never less than enthralling.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1022 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1913
Category : Art
ISBN : PRNC:32101079523153
Author : Skye Kathleen Moody
Publisher : Worldwide Library
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0373262930
When a butterfly collector is found dead in a field, something smells odd to Wildlife agent Venus Diamond--and it's not the rare poppies he's clutching. The blooms are grown on an ecological preserve that doesn't seem very friendly--environmentally or otherwise. Maybe the victim saw more than a new species--and maybe Venus has picked up the scent of a secret more explosive than the exclusive Blue Poppy fragrance. Martin's Press.
Author : Bill Terry
Publisher : TouchWood Editions
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-04
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781927129371
Beyond Beauty is the story of a remarkable journey that Bill Terry and his wife, Rosemary, undertook when they joined a party of Dutch and British alpine plant hunters intent on botanizing on the roof of the world. The expedition travelled in a convoy of eight jeeps over roads that were rarely paved and occasionally terrifying. They crossed fifteen passes, some as high as 5,000 metres (16,500 feet), where even in midsummer, the wind scoured exposed skin. They braved days at high altitude, panting in the thin air of the Tibetan plateau, and were rewarded with collages of rock, moss, lichen, flower, and foliage so sublime they might be imagined as "perfect gardens," though no gardener or landscape architect had a hand in their creation. As the journey unfolds, Terry sketches the history of the region and observes life for Tibetans under direct Chinese rule and the ever-alert People's Liberation Army. He reflects on the potential threat of a massive hydroelectric development to the wellbeing of the millions of people living downstream in Southeast Asia. Terry also contrasts the hardships suffered and dangers faced by pioneer plant hunters a century ago with the relative comfort and safety of modern travel in these remote and exotic lands. Throughout the book, the author's distinctive photography portrays local custom and culture and celebrates the wildflowers in all their profusion, especially the almost heartbreaking beauty of the Asiatic Poppies.