Author : Isabel Shipley Cunningham
Publisher : Iowa State Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis Frank N. Meyer, Plant Hunter in Asia by : Isabel Shipley Cunningham
Download or read book Frank N. Meyer, Plant Hunter in Asia written by Isabel Shipley Cunningham and published by Iowa State Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For ten years Frank Nicholas Meyer traveled across the continent of Asia for the United States Department of Agriculture looking for useful plants and fulfilling his promise to 'skim the earth in search of things good for man.' Along the way through China, Siberia, Russia, and what was then Manchuria, Turkestan, and Mongolia he dealt with threatening robber brigands, wolf packs, revolutionary soldiers on the prowl, interpreters who refused to go on, carts that shattered on lonely mountainsides, inadequate food, poor shelter, and the vermin that infested Asian villages. Meyer concentrated on fruits, nuts, grains , and fodder crops. Entering China in 1905 near the dawn of the era when explorers could travel freely there, he searched primarily for economically useful plants rather than ornamentals - the first plant hunter to do so [...]"--