Flora mirabilis
Subtitle: how plants have shaped world knowledge, health, wealth, and beauty
By: Catherine Herbert Howell ; foreword by Peter H. Raven.
Contributors: National Geographic Society (U.S.)
Publisher: National Geographic
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781426205095
Subjects: Botany -- History; Plant collecting -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Origins; title: Discovery; title: Exploration; title: Enlightenment; title: Empire; title: Science.