Botanical Exploration and Biography
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Linnaeus: The Compleat Naturalist
by Wilfrid Blunt  Synopsis The life of Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778), the man who gave living organisms two Latin names, is celebrated afresh in this newly revised and magnificently illustrated edition of the definitive biography. 200+ color illustrations....
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Sex, Botany, and Empire: The Story of Carl Linnaeus and Joseph Banks
by Patricia Fara Publisher Comments Enlightenment botany was fraught with sexual symbolism: Carl Linnaeuss controversial new system for classifying plants was based on their sexual characteristics, and the dangerously gendered language of flowers resonated with erotic allusions. In Sweden...
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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...
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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:...
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Aven Nelson of Wyoming
by Roger Williams Publisher Comments While this book is a biography of Aven Nelson, the preeminent botanist of the Rocky Mountain region for nearly a third of a century, it is also a study of the spirit of his age in the American West and of those wcapacities which combine to create the...
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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....
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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)...
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The Plant Hunters (Horticulture Garden Classic)
by Tyler Whittle Publisher Comments Tales of the botanist explorers who enriched our gardens....
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Joseph Banks: A Life
by Patrick Obrian Book News Annotation A biography of Joseph Banks (1743-1820), naturalist, explorer (as a young botanist, he accompanied Captain Cook on the expedition that resulted in the discovery of Australia), and president for more than 40 years of the Royal Society, Britain's oldest...
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The Forsters and the Botany of the Second Cook Expedition (1772-1775)
by Dan H. Nicolson and F. Raymond Fosberg
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Plant hunting in Nepal
by Roy Lancaster ...
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Wily violets & underground orchids :revelations of a botanist
by Peter Bernhardt Description Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-242)....
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Return To the Irrawaddy 1ST Edition
by Frank Kingdon Ward
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Plant Hunters
by Charles Lyte
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British Botanists
by John Gilmour
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Plant Hunting in Europe
by Hugh Roger-smith
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Pure Curiosity Botanical Letters
by Jean Jacqu Rousseau
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Billy Bartram & His Green World
by Marjory B Sanger
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Codex Witsenii
by M L Wilson
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Plant Hunters Being a History of the Hor
by Alice M Coats
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