Seeds of adventure: in search of plants.

Suffolk: Antique Collectors' Club, 2008.
Quarto, dustwrapper, 415 pp. colour illustrations.

This book is the story of the extensive travels made by two Peters in search of plants in Turkey, India, Nepal, Bhutan, China and Tibet. On nearly every expedition, they explored territory where no western plant hunters had been since such great explorers as Frank Kingdon Ward, and some of the trails they followed were so remote and rough that they had never before been botanised. Every trip was an adventure, and every adventure bore the seeds of success. Where the Himalayan range meets the gorge country of south-west China lies the richest temperate flora in the world. With their Chinese and Indian colleagues, the Peters introduced many plants, especially Rhododendrons, new or lost to cultivation.