Book ID: CBB000774290

Flower Hunters (2008)

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Gribbin, Mary (Author)
Gribbin, John R. (Author)


Oxford University Press


Publication Date: 2008
Physical Details: x + 332 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description Accounts of the lives of eleven botanical explorers of the 18th and 19th centuries who collected exotic plants to advance the new science of botany.


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Authors & Contributors
Endersby, Jim
Christina Harrison
Studholme, Joseph
Gooding, Mel
Musgrave, Toby
Skuncke, Marie-Christine
Concepts
Botany
Travel; exploration
Biographies
Collectors and collecting
Natural history
Scientific expeditions
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
Edo period (Japan, 1603-1868)
20th century, early
17th century
Places
Great Britain
Australia
Pacific Northwest (North America)
Scotland
Sri Lanka
United States
Institutions
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Uppsala Universitet
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