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Joseph Franz Rock (1884-1962) : Berichte, Briefe und Dokumente des Botanikers, Sinologen und Nakhi-Forschers
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ISBN: 9783515076937 351507693X Year: 2002 Publisher: Stuttgart: Steiner,

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Joseph Franz Rock : Briefwechsel mit E. H. Walter 1938 - 1961.
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ISBN: 3700136099 9783700136095 Year: 2006 Volume: 48 738 Bd. Publisher: Wien Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften


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Joseph Franz Rock (1884 - 1962) : Tagebuch der Reise von Chieng Mai nach Yünnan, 1921 - 1922 ; Briefwechsel mit C. S. Sargent, University of Washington, Johannes Schubert und Robert Koc.
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ISBN: 9783700138303 370013830X Year: 2007 Volume: 55 757 Publisher: Wien Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften


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The paper road : archive and experience in the botanical exploration of West China and Tibet.
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ISBN: 9780520269026 9780520269033 Year: 2011 Publisher: Berkeley University of California press


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The Paper Road : Archive and Experience in the Botanical Exploration of West China and Tibet
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ISBN: 1283291886 9786613291882 0520950496 9780520950498 9781283291880 9780520269026 0520269020 9780520269033 0520269039 Year: 2011 Publisher: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press,

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This exhilarating book interweaves the stories of two early twentieth-century botanists to explore the collaborative relationships each formed with Yunnan villagers in gathering botanical specimens from the borderlands between China, Tibet, and Burma. Erik Mueggler introduces Scottish botanist George Forrest, who employed Naxi adventurers in his fieldwork from 1906 until his death in 1932. We also meet American Joseph Francis Charles Rock, who, in 1924, undertook a dangerous expedition to Gansu and Tibet with the sons and nephews of Forrest's workers. Mueggler describes how the Naxi workers and their Western employers rendered the earth into specimens, notes, maps, diaries, letters, books, photographs, and ritual manuscripts. Drawing on an ancient metaphor of the earth as a book, Mueggler provides a sustained meditation on what can be copied, translated, and revised and what can be folded back into the earth.

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