Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Famine and farewell - a new life in China -- ch. 2 Upon the Fairy Raft - exploring Yichang -- ch. 3 Tracing the seasons through Yichang and Badong -- ch. 4 To the roof of central China -- ch. 5 A pilgrimage to Yichang -- ch. 6 To the snows of Tibet with Antwerp Pratt -- ch. 7 A transfer to Hainan -- ch. 8 To the tropics of Taiwan -- ch. 9 To Taiwan by way of Shanghai and Hong Kong -- ch. 10 To the wilds of Yunnan -- ch. 11 A transfer to Simao -- ch. 12 End of an odyssey - Yunnan Province -- ch. 13 Henry the forester
Summary
The story of Augustine Henry's life and work. Documents the expeditions undertaken by a dedicated team of botanists and horticulturalists in the 1990s to revisit Henry's routes, many of which were in danger of being flooded with the installation of the Three Gorges Dam across the Yangtze River
