

Hero image 0 of Fathers of Botany: The Discovery of Chinese Plants by European Missionaries, (Hardcover), 0 of 1
Fathers of Botany: The Discovery of Chinese Plants by European Missionaries, (Hardcover)
(No ratings yet)
Key item features
- Fathers of Botany: The Discovery of Chinese Plants by European Missionaries, (Hardcover)
- Author: University of Chicago Press
- ISBN: 9780226206707
- Format: Hardcover
- Publication Date: 2015-02-11
- Page Count: 224
Specs
- Book formatHardcover
- Fiction/nonfictionNon-Fiction
- GenreTextbooks
- Publication dateFebruary, 2015
- Pages224
- SubgenreLife Sciences
Current price is USD$73.75
Price when purchased online
Out of stock
How do you want your item?
Out of stock
About this item
Product details
Many of the world's most renowned and exciting ornamental plants--including magnolias, roses, rhododendrons, tree peonies, lilies, and blue poppies--have their origins in China. In the mid-nineteenth century, professional plant hunters were dispatched by nurseries and botanic gardens to collect living botanical specimens from China for cultivation in Europe, and it is these adventurers and nurserymen who are often credited with the explosive bloom of Chinese flowers in the West. But as Jane Kilpatrick shows in Fathers of Botany, the first Westerners to come upon and document this bounty were in fact cut from a different cloth: the clergy. Following the Opium Wars, European missionaries were the first explorers to dig further into the Chinese interior and send home evidence of one of the richest and most varied floras ever seen, and it was their discoveries that caused a sensation among Western plantsmen. Both men of faith and talented botanists alike, these missionaries lent their names to many of the plants they discovered, but their own stories disappeared into the leaf litter of history. Drawing on their letters and contemporary accounts, Kilpatrick focuses on the lives of four great French missionary botanists--Pères Armand David (of Davidia involucrata--the dove tree--and discoverer of the giant panda), Jean Marie Delavay, Paul Guillaume Farges, and Jean André Soulié--as well as a group of other French priests, Franciscan missionaries, and a single German Protestant pastor who all amassed significant plant collections, as she unearths a lost chapter of botanical history. In so doing, she reminds today's gardeners and botanists--and any of us who stop to smell the roses--of the enormous debt owed to these obscure fathers of botany.
- Fathers of Botany: The Discovery of Chinese Plants by European Missionaries, (Hardcover)
- Author: University of Chicago Press
- ISBN: 9780226206707
- Format: Hardcover
- Publication Date: 2015-02-11
- Page Count: 224
info:
We aim to show you accurate product information. Manufacturers, suppliers and others provide what you see here, and we have not verified it.
Specifications
Book format
Hardcover
Fiction/nonfiction
Non-Fiction
Genre
Textbooks
Publication date
February, 2015
Warranty
Warranty information
Please be aware that the warranty terms on items offered for sale by third party Marketplace sellers may differ from those displayed in this section (if any). To confirm warranty terms on an item offered for sale by a third party Marketplace seller, please use the 'Contact seller' feature on the third party Marketplace seller's information page and request the item's warranty terms prior to purchase.
Similar items you might like
Based on what customers bought
Stepping Forth into the World : The Chinese Educational Mission to the United States, 1872–81 (Hardcover) $55.33
$5533current price $55.33Stepping Forth into the World : The Chinese Educational Mission to the United States, 1872–81 (Hardcover)
Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories Feeding France, Book 21, (Hardcover) $127.69
$12769current price $127.69Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories Feeding France, Book 21, (Hardcover)
Beyond the Stone Arches: An American Missionary Doctor in China, 1892-1932, (Hardcover) $20.62
$2062current price $20.62Beyond the Stone Arches: An American Missionary Doctor in China, 1892-1932, (Hardcover)
Educating China, (Hardcover) $123.04
$12304current price $123.04Educating China, (Hardcover)
Science in History Cultivating Commerce: Cultures of Botany in Britain and France, 1760-1815, (Hardcover) $58.37
$5837current price $58.37Science in History Cultivating Commerce: Cultures of Botany in Britain and France, 1760-1815, (Hardcover)
Occult Hunting and Supernatural Play in Japan, (Hardcover) $72.00
$7200current price $72.00Occult Hunting and Supernatural Play in Japan, (Hardcover)
Cultures of Color in America: A Guide to Family, Religion, and Health, (Hardcover) $85.01
$8501current price $85.01Cultures of Color in America: A Guide to Family, Religion, and Health, (Hardcover)
Genetics and Breeding of Fruit Trees, (Hardcover) $57.13
$5713current price $57.13Genetics and Breeding of Fruit Trees, (Hardcover)
Filial Piety in Chinese Thought and History, (Paperback) $49.59
$4959current price $49.59Filial Piety in Chinese Thought and History, (Paperback)
Hand-book of Indian Flora; Being a Guide to all the Flowering Plants Hitherto Described as Indigenous to the Continent of India (Hardcover) $44.95
$4495current price $44.95Hand-book of Indian Flora; Being a Guide to all the Flowering Plants Hitherto Described as Indigenous to the Continent of India (Hardcover)
Caricaturing Culture in India: Cartoons and History in the Modern World, (Hardcover) $82.97
$8297current price $82.97Caricaturing Culture in India: Cartoons and History in the Modern World, (Hardcover)
A Colonial Affair: Commerce, Conversion, and Scandal in French India, (Hardcover) $58.95
$5895current price $58.95A Colonial Affair: Commerce, Conversion, and Scandal in French India, (Hardcover)
Banking Reform in India and China, (Hardcover) $56.14
$5614current price $56.14Banking Reform in India and China, (Hardcover)
Discovering the Welfare State in East Asia, (Hardcover) $47.84
$4784current price $47.84Discovering the Welfare State in East Asia, (Hardcover)
Self-Cultivation Philosophies in Ancient India, Greece, and China, (Hardcover) $89.46 Was $101.86
$8946current price $89.46, Was $101.86$101.86Self-Cultivation Philosophies in Ancient India, Greece, and China, (Hardcover)
China Today: Youth Cultures in China (Hardcover) $59.51
$5951current price $59.51China Today: Youth Cultures in China (Hardcover)
Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philos The Hermeneutics of Suspicion: Cross-Cultural Encounters with India, (Paperback) $56.95
$5695current price $56.95Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philos The Hermeneutics of Suspicion: Cross-Cultural Encounters with India, (Paperback)
The Fresh-water Fishes of China (Hardcover) $36.95
$3695current price $36.95The Fresh-water Fishes of China (Hardcover)
China's Coming War with Asia (Hardcover) $64.29
$6429current price $64.29China's Coming War with Asia (Hardcover)
Foreign Direct Investment in China, (Hardcover) $89.31
$8931current price $89.31Foreign Direct Investment in China, (Hardcover)
Customer ratings & reviews
0 ratings|0 reviews
This item does not have any reviews yet
