The paper road : archive and experience in the botanical exploration of West China and Tibet /
"This exhilarating book interweaves the stories of two early twentieth-century botanists to explore the collaborative relationships each formed with Yunnan villagers in gathering botanical specimens from the borderlands between China, Tibet, and Burma. Erik Mueggler introduces Scottish botanist...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2011
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| Series: | ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | "This exhilarating book interweaves the stories of two early twentieth-century botanists to explore the collaborative relationships each formed with Yunnan villagers in gathering botanical specimens from the borderlands between China, Tibet, and Burma. Erik Mueggler introduces Scottish botanist George Forrest, who employed Naxi adventurers in his fieldwork from 1906 until his death in 1932. We also meet American Joseph Francis Charles Rock, who, in 1924, undertook a dangerous expedition to Gansu and Tibet with the sons and nephews of Forrest's workers. Mueggler describes how the Naxi workers and their Western employers rendered the earth into specimens, notes, maps, diaries, letters, books, photographs, and ritual manuscripts. Drawing on an ancient metaphor of the earth as a book, Mueggler provides a sustained meditation on what can be copied, translated, and revised and what can be folded back into the earth"--Provided by publisher. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 361 pages) : illustrations |
| Awards: | Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries (CBHL) Annual Literature Award - Nominee, 2013 |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520950498 0520950496 1283291886 9781283291880 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
