The plant hunters
Subtitle: being an examination of collecting with an account of the careers & the methods of a number of those who have searched the world for wild plants
By: Tyler Whittle ; [foreword by Charles Elliott].
Publisher: Lyons & Burford
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
Subjects: Plant collectors -- History.; Plant collecting -- History; Botanical specimens -- Collection and preservation -- History.; Botanists -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-272) and index.
Originally published: Philadelphia : Chilton Book Co., [1970].