Wanderings in China by Robert Fortune

Wanderings in China

Robert Fortune

420 pages first pub 2001 (view editions)

nonfiction memoir travel emotional reflective medium-paced
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When Robert Fortune was appointed Botanical Collector to the Horticultural Society of London in 1842, China was looked upon as a kind of fairy-land by the Western world. It was so remote that few had an opportunity of visiting and judging for them...

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