Flower Hunters
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; Oxford University Press
Published: May 26, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780192807182
Subjects: History of science; Plant life: general; Popular science; History; History - General History; History: World; Expeditions & Discoveries; General; Life Sciences - Botany; History / Expeditions & Discoveries; Biography; Botanists; Plant collecting; Plant collectors
Description: 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].