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The paper road : archive and experience in the botanical exploration of West China and Tibet / Erik Mueggler.
LIBRA QK355 .M83 2011
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mueggler, Erik, 1962-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Forrest, George, 1873-1932--Travel.
- Forrest, George.
- Rock, Joseph F. (Joseph Francis), 1884-1962--Travel.
- Rock, Joseph F.
- Rock, Joseph F. (Joseph Francis), 1884-1962.
- Forrest, George, 1873-1932.
- Travel.
- Botany--Fieldwork--China--Yunnan Sheng--History--20th century.
- Botany.
- Botany--Fieldwork--China--Gansu Sheng--History--20th century.
- Botany--Fieldwork--China--Tibet Autonomous Region--History--20th century.
- Botanists.
- Yunnan Sheng (China)--Description and travel.
- Yunnan Sheng (China).
- Gansu Sheng (China)--Description and travel.
- Gansu Sheng (China).
- Tibet Autonomous Region (China)--Description and travel.
- Tibet Autonomous Region (China).
- Botanists--Scotland--Biography.
- Botanists--United States--Biography.
- United States.
- Scotland.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 361 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2011]
- 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. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Pt. 1. The eyes of others
- Farmers and kings
- The paper road
- The golden mountain gate
- pt. 2. Bodies real and virtual
- Lost worlds
- The mountain
- Adventurers
- The book of the Earth.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780520269026
- 0520269020
- 9780520269033
- 0520269039
- OCLC:
- 712114217
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