AGS Patagonia books
Jane McGary (Thu, 19 Jun 2014 11:22:54 PDT)
The two AGS publications on the plants of Argentine Patagonia are
attractive, though very expensive, especially for non-members. I have
seen them and may buy them. The emphasis is on southern Patagonia,
including areas that those of us who prefer to travel on our own
might not easily reach. Access to the area is pretty much through
Argentina because of the lack of roads in the adjacent part of Chile,
though you can, I think, go via the Torres del Paine park in Chile if
you want to start in Punta Arenas and do a mass of paperwork about
the rental car. Most of the rosulate violets Bob Werra mentions can
be seen farther north, but for such joys as Hamadryas you would have
to be in the south. There is little bulbous flora in southern
Patagonia, if any, but the plants are indeed wonderful.
Jane McGary
Portland, Oregon, USA
At 11:12 PM 6/18/2014, you wrote:
Regarding New editon of Chilean plant book, there are two new books
about flowers on the Argentinian side of the Andes. The first is
"Flowers of the Patagonian Mountains." It is 320 pages with 900
color images of 731 plant species. It is in English. Martin Sheador
is the lead author with five other contributors. Martin has been
studying these plants in situ for many years. It is published by the
Alpine Garden Society. My wife and I took a ten day AGS trip to
Patagonia led by Martin Sheador and his wife Anna-Liisa and it was
wonderful. If you ever wanted to see roseolate violets, we saw
plenty. They are remarkable plus tons of other beauties. A companion
book published by the AGS is "Patagonian Mountain Flower Holidays."
The lead author is Hilary Little, an expert on Patagonia along with
five other authors.It is 286 pages. It's a "how to" book to help
people who wish to take a trip to see the flowers.They are available
from the AGS Book Store at http://www.alpinegardensoceity.net/. We
have both and they are wonderful. Price around 40 pounds each.
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