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Celebrated plantsman Roy Lancaster's birth on 5th December 1937 was
the start of something big for plants and horticulture. His chance
find of a Mexican tobacco plant in a local allotment brought him
fame as a Bolton schoolboy and sowed the seeds of his future
career. This book is the story of his adventures as he sees
tropical plants for the first time in the jungles of Malaya, meets
Roberto Burle Marx at his garden near Rio de Janeiro, and hunts for
pitcher plants in North America. Well-known for his encylopedic
botanical knowledge and for introducing many popular garden plants,
Roy is also a consummate story-teller and wise philosopher. His
acute sense of life's comic moments, spirited sense of adventure
and respect for the natural world make this a remarkable read.
This book successfully combines a most enjoyable and detailed
account of the well-known author's many journeys through China.
First and foremost, Travels in China provides a practical
assessment of the plants that are either of ornamental merit or
botanical interest to gardeners in the West. Roy Lancaster
describes some 1,000 different plants in their natural habitat and
provides an eminently readable account of a fascinating country,
its people, and the plants that have enriched the gardens of Europe
and North America. Hundreds of Lancaster's own attractive and
colourful photographs are reproduced, interspersed with fascinating
descriptions and anecdotes from his travels. This is a book about
plants from a country so rich in variety that there are 50% more
species on one mountain in China than there are in the whole of the
British Isles. Indeed, the wide range of climatic conditions in a
country as vast as China makes this book relevant to all gardeners,
be they from Norway or Spain, the United
`Parrot was very angry indeed. He was also very wet. Although he
had heard the cry to abandon ship, and had even seen the sailors
jumping into the lifeboat, before he could jump in too, the huge,
towering wave swept him spluttering and squawking over the side.'
After this dramatic start, Parrot, a bird who has forgotten how to
fly having spent most of his life on perches or human shoulders,
has to learn how to survive in a wide open and at times dangerous
sea. But he is not alone, a handful of other animals share his
shipwrecked fate and place their trust in him to see them through.
Parrot Takes Command is a delightful book full of adult
relationship themes covered at a child's level. It is funny, a
little dangerous and is beautifully illustrated.
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