Flowers of the Himalaya |
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| Author:
| Polunin, Oleg
Stainton, Adam |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-564187-5 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 1997 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press India
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $57.23AUD $42.95 |
Book Description:
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This is the first book of its kind, helping the reader to identify the wild flowerw of the Himalaya, from Kashmir and Ladakh to the Nepal-Sikkim border in the east. It contains descriptions of 1500 species and illustrations of over 1000 species, most of them in colour. The book also gives details of where to go plant-hunting in the Himalaya, and at what seasons of the year. Brief descriptions of types of climate, geology, soils, altitude effects, and the activitiesof man and his...
More DescriptionThis is the first book of its kind, helping the reader to identify the wild flowerw of the Himalaya, from Kashmir and Ladakh to the Nepal-Sikkim border in the east. It contains descriptions of 1500 species and illustrations of over 1000 species, most of them in colour. The book also gives details of where to go plant-hunting in the Himalaya, and at what seasons of the year. Brief descriptions of types of climate, geology, soils, altitude effects, and the activitiesof man and his animals on the vegetation are also included.