Explorers' botanical notebook
Subtitle: in the footsteps of Theophrastus, Marco Polo, Linnaeus, Flinders, Darwin, Speke and Hooker
By: text, Florence Thinard ; photographs, Yannick Fourie
Contributors: Fourie, Yannick
Publisher: Firefly Books Ltd.
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9781770857636
Subjects: Botany; Botanists; Scientific expeditions; Travel; Biography; History
Work titles: Herbier des explorateurs
Description: "This book follows the journey of over 80 pioneering botanists and the important findings and collections they have made. It includes each journey and routes taken with the help of maps and personal notes. Each story explains the complications and difficulties that each botanist had to overcome but the many discoveries made along the way."--
Notes: Translation of: L'herbier des explorateurs : sur les traces de Théophraste, Jussieu, La Porouse, Darwin, Livingstone, Monod.

"This publication was created in partnership with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and the Institut de botanique de Montpellier"--Title-page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 164-166) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Voyages to plants unknown; title: Portraits of the botanical explorers.