A botanical pioneer in South West China. Experiences and impressions of an Austrian botanist during the First World War

by Heinrich Handel-Mazzetti, trans David Winstanley

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Essex: David Winstanley, 2001 . Second printing of a print on demand monograph; 4to, pp. 10 , xv, 1 , 192; frontis portrait, 48 illustrations from photographs and seven maps; pictorial paper wrappers; fine. First published as Naturbilder aus Sudwest China in 1927. A contemporary of Forrest and Kingdon-Ward, Heinrich-Mazzetti was a distinguished Austrian botanist who accompanied Camillo Schneider on a plant-hunting journey to Yunnan in 1914. Stranded by

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