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A BOTANICAL PIONEER IN SOUTH WEST CHINA

Experiences and Impressions of an Austrian Botanist During the First World War

HEINRICH HANDEL-MAZZETTI

Heinrich Handel-Mazzetti in the Alps near Kals, 1938 (photo by courtesy of Professor K.H.Rechinger).

A BOTANICAL PIONEER IN SOUTH WEST CHINA

Experiences and Impressions of an Austrian Botanist During the First World War

HEINRICH HANDEL-MAZZETTI

Keeper of the Botanical Department, Natural History Museum, Vienna

With 48 photographs taken by the author and seven maps

First published as "Naturbilder aus Südwest China" by ÖSTERREICHISCHER BUNDESVERLAG, Vienna, 1927

English translation, complete and unabridged, with biography of Handel-Mazzetti by David Winstanley

Published by David Winstanley, ETS 20 St Thomas Road, Brentwood, Essex, CM 14 4DB, England

Printed by Antony Rowe Ltd, Chippenham, in Roman T ISBN 0 9529230 0 9 Copyright ® 1996 David Winstanley

Front cover: In the Salween Valley. View from Alülaka (2850m) over the Tschamutong (Gongshan) basin (right) to the Gomba-la (about 5500m) in the Salween-Irrawaddy divide. Left: the Tjiontson-iumba.

From left to right: Pinus insularis, Querais dentata, Buddleia asiatica, Deutzia corymbosa, Leontopodium sinense, Bletilla yunnanensis, Pteridium aquilinum, Carex cruciata.

Lao Li; a Tibetan from Londjre; Kru (behind): Li Tere (right).

From an oil painting by Eduard Handel-Mazzetti based upon several photographs by the author.

Reproduced by courtesy of Prof. Dr. Michael Hesse, Director of the Institute of Botany and Botanical Garden, University of Vienna.