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
Journals
Journal of the History of Biology
Journal of Historical Geography
Journal of Biosciences
Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Archives of Natural History
Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology
Publishers
Kew Publishing
William Collins
Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study
Yale University Press
William Heinemann
University of Chicago Press
Concepts
Botany
Biographies
Travel; exploration
Collectors and collecting
Scientific expeditions
Natural history
People
Banks, Joseph
Linnaeus, Carolus
Hooker, Joseph Dalton
Cook, James
Razumovsky, Alexei
Demidov, Prokophy
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
Sweden
Institutions
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Uppsala Universitet
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