Botanical exploration of Southern Africa
Subtitle: an illustrated history of early botanical literature on the Cape flora : biographical accounts of the leading plant collectors and their activities in Southern Africa from the days of the East India Company until modern times
By: by H.F. Glen and G. Germishuizen, compilers
Contributors: Germishuizen, Gerrit; Gunn, Mary
Edition: Ed. 2
Series: Strelitzia -- 26; Strelitzia -- 26
Publisher: South African National Biodiversity Institute
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Pretoria
Language: eng
Number of pages: 489
ISBN-13: 9781919976549
Subjects: Botany; Botanical literature; Botanists; Plant collectors; History; Biography; Botanical illustration
Notes: First ed. published: Cape Town : A.A. Balkema for the Botanical Research Institute, 1981. Authored by Mary Gunn and L.E. Codd.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 69-70) and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. Historical outline up to about 1750. 1. Voyages of discovery; title: 2. Pioneer observers; title: 3. Early botanical collections and illustrations; title: 4. Early plants appear in print; title: Settlement at the Cape; title: Hermann and Ten Rhyne; title: The Van der Stel period; title: The Tulbagh period. Pt. 2. Dictionary of plant collectors