Title: Flower hunters /
Authors: Gribbin, Mary.; Gribbin, John R.; Gribbin, John, 1946-
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Botanists Biography; Plant collectors Biography.; Plant collecting History.
Abstract: 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 botany. For these adventurers, the search for new, undiscovered plant specimens was something worth risking - and often losing - their lives for. --[Publisher description].
Contents: Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) -- Joseph Banks (1743-1820) -- Francis Masson (1741-1805) and Carl Peter Thunberg (1742-1828) -- David Douglas (1799-1834) -- William Lobb (1809-1864) and Thomas Lobb (1817-1894) -- Robert Fortune (1812-1880) -- Marianne North (1830-1890) -- Richard Spruce (1817-1893) -- Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911).