In the Footsteps of Augustine Henry and his Chinese Plant Collectors /anglais - Hardcover

Irish Arts Review - 4-page spread. 'Seamus O'Brien's Book, 'In the Footsteps of Augustine Henry' is a fine book. As a bonus, I very much enjoyed the section near the end which includes period photographs of legendary plantsmen contemporary with Henry - In an extraordinary period for plant collecting, Augustine Henry, together with these outstanding men, changed the face of gardening.'

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.