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04936cam a2200541Mi 4500 |
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ocn992536055 |
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OCoLC |
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20180920110955.0 |
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160307t20172017enkabc b 001 0 eng d |
| 015 ## - NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER |
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| National bibliography number |
GBB6C5092 |
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bnb |
| 016 7# - NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHIC AGENCY CONTROL NUMBER |
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| Record control number |
018001538 |
| Source |
Uk |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781842466193 |
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| International Standard Book Number |
1842466194 |
| 035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER |
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| System control number |
(OCoLC)992536055 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
STF |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
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rda |
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STF |
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OCLCO |
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OCLCF |
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EYM |
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YDX |
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EQO |
| 043 ## - GEOGRAPHIC AREA CODE |
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a-cc--- |
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| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
QK31.F63 |
| Item number |
W38 2017 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Watt, Alistair, |
| Relator term |
author. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
77301 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Robert Fortune : |
| Remainder of title |
a plant hunter in the Orient / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Alistair Watt ; foreword by Professor David Mabberley AM. |
| 264 #1 - Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
Kew, Richmond, Surrey : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
2017. |
| 264 #4 - Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
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| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
©2017 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xxi, 410 pages : |
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illustrations (chiefly color), color maps, portraits ; |
| Dimensions |
26 cm |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 286-405) and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Foreward by Professor David Mabberley -- Acknowledgements -- Maps -- Prologue -- Introduction: In the footsteps of Robert Fortune -- Chapter 1: Awakenings -- Chapter 2: Wanderings in China: the first expedition, 1843-5 -- Chapter 3: Interlude: promotion and praise -- Chapter 4: A journey to the tea countries: the second expedition, 1848-51 -- Chapter 5: A residence among the Chinese: the third expedition, 1853-6 -- Chapter 6: The fourth expedition: collecting for the USA, 1858-9 -- Chapter 7: Yedo and Peking: the fifth expedition, Japan, 1860-1 -- Chapter 8: Yedo and Peking: the fifth expedition continues to Beijing, 1861 -- Chapter 9: Robert Fortune and the Indian tea industry -- Chapter 10: A quiet retirement? -- Chapter 11: Fortune's legacy -- Chapter 12: With Fortune in China -- Appendix 1: Instructions given to Robert Fortune by the Horticultural Society, 1843 -- Appendix 2: Report of the Council of the Horticultural Society, May 1846 -- Appendix 3: List of insect species known to be named for Robert Fortune; List of Mollusc species known to be named for Robert Fortune -- Appendix 4: List of plant species sent to the USA by Robert Fortune, 1858/1859 -- Appendix 5: Plants sent to India by Robert Fortune -- Appendix 6: Plants introduced by Robert Fortune to cultivation in the UK, India and Australia, 1843-1861 -- Appendix 7: Fortune's herbarium specimens -- Notes and citations -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| 520 8# - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
This is the first full biography of the great Scottish plant collector Robert Fortune, famous for working in China and Japan from 1843 until 1861. This detailed presentation of his life includes an extensive analysis of his travels, plant collections and introductions, including the first maps ever produced of his collecting itineraries in China. Watt reveals that in order for Fortune to travel into the interior of China in search of new garden plants for the (later, Royal) Horticultural Society of London he had to adopt Chinese disguise, as it had been forbidden for Europeans to leave the confines of a few coastal Treaty ports. After the successful first expedition, Fortune made four more journeys to the Far East, including China, Taiwan and Japan in search of horticultural novelties. He succeeded admirably and very many of his discoveries are garden plants today. Two of his major expeditions were made in the employ of the British East India Company to aid the introduction of the tea industry into India and another expedition was carried out to investigate a possible tea industry in the USA. It has been a commonly accepted theme that Fortune was in some way 'a tea thief' and a 'spy'; the research in this book shows a completely different story. Using much new material Watt sets out to give a full account of the man, his explorations in 19th century China and the plants that he introduced into our gardens. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Fortune, Robert, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1813-1880. |
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77302 |
| 610 20 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME |
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| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element |
East India Company. |
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77303 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Plant collectors |
| Form subdivision |
Biography. |
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77304 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Plant collecting |
| Geographic subdivision |
China |
| General subdivision |
History. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
4967 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Plant collecting |
| Geographic subdivision |
Japan |
| General subdivision |
History. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
77305 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Zoological specimens |
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Collection and preservation |
| Geographic subdivision |
China. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
77306 |
| 710 2# - ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME |
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| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element |
Mabberley, D. J., |
| Relator term |
author of foreword. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
77307 |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Library of Congress Classification |
| 948 ## - LOCAL PROCESSING INFORMATION (OCLC); SERIES PART DESIGNATOR (RLIN) |
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| h (OCLC) |
HELD BY WUY - 16 OTHER HOLDINGS |