In China's Border Provinces. The Turbulent Career of Joseph Rock, Botanist-Explorer

by Sutton

$350 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First edition

First edition. With photographs. 334 pp. Red cloth. Fine in fine dustjacket. Item #267845 Joseph Francis Charles Rock 1884 – 1962 was an Austrian-American explorer, geographer, linguist and botani autodidact. He moved to Hawaii in 1905 and became an authority on its fauna.

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