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Healey, B. J.

The Plant Hunters

1975

23,50 €

Horizon Books

(Toronto, Canadá)

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Año de publicación
1975
Lugar de impresión
New York. Charles Scribner's Sons
Autor
Healey, B. J.
Edición
First American Edition.
Materia
Travel - General Plant Hunting
Idiomas
Inlgés
Primera edición

Descripción

8vo [23 x 16 cm]; vii, [ii], 214 pp, illustrations from photos and from early sources, index. original green cloth with silver spine title lettering, a very good, unmarked and clean copy in jacket (price clipped, short tear, light wear at edge). A picture of this book is available upon request by email. An interesting and readable account of plant hunting from Parkinson, Tradescant, Banister, Kaempfer, Bartram, Robert Fortune to E. H. Wilson and Kingdon-Ward and dozens of others, organized in 9 main chapters, with an index of plant names and general index. A good introduction to where our plants came from and the difficulties the botanists had in finding them.
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