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Joseph Banks: A Life by Patrick Obrian Publisher Comments One of our greatest writers about the sea has written an engrossing story of one of history's most legendary maritime explorers. Patrick O'Brian's biography of naturalist, explorer and co-founder of Australia, Joseph Banks, is narrative history at its... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce, and Obsession by Adam Leith Gollner Publisher Comments Delicious, lethal, hallucinogenic and medicinal, fruits have led nations to war, fueled dictatorships and lured people into new worlds. An expedition through the fascinating world of fruit, The Fruit Hunters is the engrossing story of some of Earth's... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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Flower Hunters by John Gribbin Publisher Comments The flower hunters were intrepid explorers - remarkable, eccentric men and women who scoured the world in search of extraordinary plants from the middle of the seventeenth to the end of the nineteenth century, and helped establish the new science of... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $16.50 Used - Hardcover
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A Rum Affair: A True Story of Botanical Fraud by Karl Sabbagh Publisher Comments A Rum Affair is an absorbing tale of scientific chicanery and academic intrigue—critically acclaimed and a finalist for the Los Angeles TimesBook Prize. In the 1940s, the eminent British botanist John Heslop Harrison proposed a controversial theory:... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Painted Herbarium: The Life and Art of Emily Hitchcock Terry, 1838-1921 by Beatrice S. Smith Publisher Comments Printbegrænsninger: Der kan printes 10 sider ad gangen og max. 40 sider pr. session.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $22.19 Google eBooks - Electronic
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A Rum Affair: A True Story of Botanical Fraud by Karl Sabbagh Synopsis British botanist John Heslop Harrison rose to fame after claiming to have discovered several species of rare plants on the mysterious Isle of Rum off the west coast of Scotland. Having stumbled across a veiled reference in an amateur botanist's obituary,... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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Flower Hunters by Mary Gribbin Publisher Comments The flower hunters were intrepid explorers - remarkable, eccentric men and women who scoured the world in search of extraordinary plants from the middle of the seventeenth to the end of the nineteenth century, and helped establish the new science of... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Empire's Nature: Mark Catesby's New World Vision by Amy Meyers Publisher Comments This book will find an important place in any library. William and Mary Quarterly A useful addition to libraries of readers with a particular interest in the history of colonial or eighteenth-century British science or art. Journal of Southern History A... (read more) List Price $42.50 Your price: $17.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A reunion of trees :the discovery of exotic plants and their introduction into North American and European landscapes by Stephen A Spongberg Publisher Comments Stephen Spongberg's vividly written and lavishly illustrated "travel story" of trees and shrubs tells of intrepid explorers who journeyed to the far corners of the globe and brought back to Europe and North America a wealth of exotic plant species.... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $23.00 Used - Hardcover
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Wily violets & underground orchids :revelations of a botanist by Peter Bernhardt Book News Annotation Bernhardt uses plants as jumping off points into discussions on such scientific concepts as adaptation and pollination, nutrient recycling and plant/animal relationships. Illustrated. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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Painted Herbarium: The Life & Art of Emily Hitchcock Terry (1838- 1921) by Beatrice S Smith Description Includes bibliographical references (p. 61-74) and index.... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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Plants from the Edge of the World: New Explorations in the Far East by Mark Flanagan Publisher Comments At the heart of this descriptive and entertaining travelogue is the authors' personal tale of exciting rare plant discoveries in the Far East. Vividly illustrated with color maps and photographs.... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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John Lindley (1799 - 1865 by William T Stearn Publisher Comments Published in association with The Royal Horticultural Association, this volume commemorates the bi-centenary of "the father of orchidology." In addition to establishing 120 genera of Orchidaceae, Lindley was a true Renaissance man: an administrator... (read more) List Price $39.50 Your price: $12.00 Used - Hardcover
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Leonard Rauwolf by Karl Dannenfeldt Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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Plant Hunters Paradise by Frank Kingdon Ward Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Leonhard Rauwolf: Sixteenth Century Physician, Botanist and Traveler by Karl Dannenfeldt Your price: $2.48 Used - Hardcover
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Plant Hunters in the Andes by T Harper Goodspeed Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Jean Linden Explorer Master of the Orchid by Nicole Ceulemans Your price: $19.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Edward Palmer Plant Explorer of the American West by Rogers Mcvaugh Your price: $7.98 Used - Hardcover
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Green Medicine the Search for Plants That Heal by Margaret B Kreig Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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