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Beyond Beauty - Hunting the Wild Blue Poppy (Paperback)
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Beyond Beauty - Hunting the Wild Blue Poppy (Paperback)
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List price R713
Loot Price R570
Discovery Miles 5 700
You Save R143 (20%)
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Total price: R590
Discovery Miles: 5 900
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"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.
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