AGRICULTURE AND ETHNOBOTANY OF THE MEKONG BASIN. THE MEKONG EXPLORATION COMMISSION REPORT (1866-1868), Volume. 4 Tapa blanda - 2001

Bangkok: White Lotus, 2001. Small Chinese characters stamp on the first end paper. This fourth volume presents an in-depth overview of agriculture, horticulture, forestry, dye and textile plants, and medicinal plants, and discusses the main trade crops of the countries of the wider Mekong Valley, including Yunnan, Vietnam, Laos, Northeast Thailand, and Cambodia. The main impediments to greater productivity of these sectors are discussed in the framework of the beginning of French colonial expansion in the area. This overview contains a host of scientific facts on uses of plants and agricultural methods practiced on various types of land that cannot be found easily anywhere else. The book has been enhanced with a number of period scientific drawings of botanical taxa of interest to present-day readers and rare period photographs.. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

White Lotus Co., Ltd. Used - Very Good.

Bangkok: White Lotus, 2001. This book (originally the fourth volume of The Mekong Exploration Commission Report, 1866-1868) presents an in-depth overview of agriculture, horticulture, forestry, dye and textile plants, and medicinal plants, and discusses the main trade crops of the countries of the wider Mekong Valley, including Yunnan, Vietnam, Laos, northeast Thailand, and Cambodia. The main impediments to greater productivity of these sectors are discussed in the framework of the beginning of French colonial expansion in the area. This overview contains a host of scientific facts on uses of plants and agricultural methods practiced on various types of land that cannot be found easily anywhere else. The book has been enhanced with a number of period scientific drawings of botanical taxa of interest to present-day readers. First English translation of the 1873 French edition. 294 pp., 62 pp. illustrations. Light tape residue marks and soiling to front amnd rear endpapers; otherwise internal pages… Leer más

Bangkok: White Lotus Press, 2001. Paperback. Very Good/no dj. 0.42. This fourth volume presents an in-depth overview of agriculture, horticulture, forestry, dye and textile plants, and medicinal plants, and discusses the main trade crops of the countries of the wider Mekong Valley, including Yunnan, Vietnam, Laos, Northeast Thailand, and Cambodia. The main impediments to greater productivity of these sectors are discussed in the framework of the beginning of French colonial expansion in the area. This overview contains a host of scientific facts on uses of plants and agricultural methods practiced on various types of land that cannot be found easily anywhere else. The book has been enhanced with a number of period scientific drawings of botanical taxa of interest to present-day readers and rare period photographs.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.