The plant hunters
Subtitle: being an examination of collecting with an account of the careers and the methods of a number of those who have searched the world for wild plants
Publisher: Heinemann
Published: 1970
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
Subjects: Botanical specimens; Collection and preservation; Plant introduction; Botanists
Notes: From the library of Gore Vidal; inscribed to him by the author on title page: "Gore, on accomplishing the first half, Michael".

Bound in publisher's black cloth over boards; top edges stained red; with illustrated dust jacket.