In China's Border Provinces. The Turbulent Career of Joseph Rock, Botanist-Explorer

  • With photographs. 334 pp
  • New York: Hastings House, 1974
By Sutton
New York: Hastings House, 1974. First edition. With photographs. 334 pp. Red cloth. Fine in fine dustjacket. First edition. With photographs. 334 pp. Joseph Francis Charles Rock (1884 – 1962) was an Austrian-American explorer, geographer, linguist and botani autodidact. He moved to Hawaii in 1905 and became an authority on its fauna.

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