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Flower hunters / Mary Gribbin & John Gribbin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gribbin, Mary.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Botanists--Biography.
- Botanists.
- Plant collectors--Biography.
- Plant collectors.
- Plant collecting--History.
- Plant collecting.
- History.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- x, 332 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
- Summary:
- This is the story of eleven flower hunters-remarkable, eccentric, obsessive men and women who between them travelled to every corner of the world in search of new and exotic plants. They were founding figures of the new science of botany. For these intrepid adventurers, the search for undiscovered plant specimens was something worth risking their lives, and some did not return. Flower Hunters tells of their lives, their adventures, their scientific quest, and the lasting impact of their travels in our familiar garden plants.
- Contents:
- Prologue: John Ray (1627-1705) 7
- 1 Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) 29
- 2 Joseph Banks (1743-1820) 67
- 3 Francis Masson (1741-1805) and Carl Peter Thunberg (1742-1828) 104
- 4 David Douglas (1799-1834) 128
- 5 William Lobb (1809-1864) and Thomas Lobb (1817-1894) 163
- 6 Robert Fortune (1812-1880) 189
- 7 Marianne North (1830-1890) 215
- 8 Richard Spruce (1817-1893) 238
- 9 Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911) 269.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 312-316) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780192807182
- 0192807188
- OCLC:
- 183610492
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