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Beyond beauty: hunting the wild blue poppy

By Terry , BILL

Book information

Publisher
TouchWood Editions
ISBN
9781927129388, 9781927129371, 1927129389
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
20 MB (21050679 bytes)
Series
desLibris. Books collection
Pages
181 pages) : illustrations (principalement en coul
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
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Description

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.;One: The Plant People -- Two: The Lampshade Poppy -- Three: The Purple Poppy -- Four: The Horrid Poppy -- Five: The Three River -- Six: The Tibetan Plateau -- Seven: The Cambridge Blue Poppy -- Eight: Sir David Prain's Poppy -- Nine: China's Tibet -- Ten: Major Bailey's Poppy.

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