Wilson's China

Interestingly, as I was reading A Naturalist in Western China, I discovered a new book, published just within the past couple months, that retraces E.H. Wilson's trips through the mountainous regions of western Sichuan:  


I started reading it tonight, after finishing Wilson's book last week, and it's fascinating to be able to compare Wilson's original writings and photographs with descriptions of the same location--and sometimes actually the same tree he photographed--a century after his plant hunting expeditions.

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