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Author : Kenneth Lemmon
Publisher : Phoenix
ISBN 13 : 9780460077132
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (771 download)
Download or read book The Golden Age of Plant Hunters written by Kenneth Lemmon and published by Phoenix. This book was released on 1968 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : S. B. Primrose
Publisher : Pimpernel Press
ISBN 13 : 9781910258781
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (587 download)
Download or read book Modern Plant Hunters written by S. B. Primrose and published by Pimpernel Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only book to tell the stories of the modern plant hunters - and their breathtaking adventures.
Author : Wil Roebroeks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Hunters of the Golden Age written by Wil Roebroeks and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The period of 30,000 to 20,000 bp can be aptly called the Golden Age of hunter gatherers for a variety of reasons spelled out in great detail by the 37 contributors to this volume.
Author : Kenneth Lemmon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Golden Age of Plant Hunters written by Kenneth Lemmon and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Martyn Rix
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022611984X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)
Download or read book The Golden Age of Botanical Art written by Martyn Rix and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-09-02 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seventeenth century heralded a golden age of exploration, as intrepid travelers sailed around the world to gain firsthand knowledge of previously unknown continents. These explorers also collected the world’s most beautiful flora, and often their findings were recorded for posterity by talented professional artists. The Golden Age of Botanical Art tells the story of these exciting plant-hunting journeys and marries it with full-color reproductions of the stunning artwork they produced. Covering work through the nineteenth century, this lavishly illustrated book offers readers a look at 250 rare or unpublished images by some of the world’s most important botanical artists. Truly global in its scope, The Golden Age of Botanical Art features work by artists from Europe, China, and India, recording plants from places as disparate as Africa and South America. Martyn Rix has compiled the stories and art not only of well-known figures—such as Leonardo da Vinci and the artists of Empress Josephine Bonaparte—but also of those adventurous botanists and painters whose names and work have been forgotten. A celebration of both extraordinarily beautiful plant life and the globe-trotting men and women who found and recorded it, The Golden Age of Botanical Art will enchant gardeners and art lovers alike.
Author : Bobby J. Ward
Publisher : Timber Press (OR)
ISBN 13 : 9780881926965
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (269 download)
Download or read book The Plant Hunter's Garden written by Bobby J. Ward and published by Timber Press (OR). This book was released on 2004 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this exciting book, some of today's most prolific plant hunters choose the best treasures from their years of collecting. While providing interesting details on the lives and careers of these explorers, the real focus of the book is on the plants themselves — all sumptuously illustrated with stunning photos.
Author : Toby Musgrave
Publisher : Ward Lock Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780706377538
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (775 download)
Download or read book The Plant Hunters written by Toby Musgrave and published by Ward Lock Limited. This book was released on 1998 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of the men who discovered and brought back a wealth of exotic new plants. Journeying through remote and beautiful lands, often in great peril, they collected the plants that shaped western garden design for 200 years. The stories are illustrated with portraits, photographs and maps.
Author : Carolyn Fry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781741801125
Total Pages : 63 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Plant Hunters written by Carolyn Fry and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They can be more richly-hued than precious stones, more valuable than gold and as alluring as undiscovered lands. This is the story of rare and unusual plants, and the botanist explorers who risked neck and nation in search of them. Open this lushly illustrated and unique volume and encounter a treasure-trove of plant hunting history. It is teeming with over 100 detailed colour illustrations from the Royal Botanic Gardens archive in Kew, plus fascinating facsimile copies of memorabilia such as pages from Linnaeus' 1732 Lapland journal, botanical notebook and sketchbook extracts and specimen drawings. From the Ancient Egyptians to the 'discovery' of Australia, it is a story rich in adventure. This unique book comes in a sturdy outer casing and has many gatefolds throughout to enhance the spectacular images presented.
Author : Mary Gribbin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0192807188
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)
Download or read book Flower Hunters written by Mary Gribbin and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2008 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carl Linnaeus - Joseph Banks - Francis Masson - Carl Peter Thunberg - David Douglas - William Lobb - Thomas Lobb - Robert Fortune - Marianne North - Richard Spruce - Joseph Dalton Hooker.
Author : Michael Sidney Tyler-Whittle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Plant Hunters written by Michael Sidney Tyler-Whittle and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Queen Hatshepsut's journey to the land of Punt in 1482 B.C. to modern botanical expeditions, here is a vivid account of botanists, their travels, and the interesting, valuable specimens they brought back to their gardens and laboratories. Mr. Whittle first surveys the history of collecting prior to the time of Nathaniel Ward, the inventor of the portable greenhouse, then explains the scientific techniques of plant hunting developed by Ward. And, finally, he tells of the "Scramble for Green Treasure" to the far corners of the earth that followed in Ward's wake and he explores the gradual development of the methods botanists are using now.
Author : P. S. Short
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book In Pursuit of Plants written by P. S. Short and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Surinam F.W. Hostmann allowed vampire bats to suck his toes; in West Africa, William Grant Milne sold his clothes and travelled naked for 200 miles. These and other incidents are recorded in this compilation of accounts of the experiences of 19th- and 20th-century plant collectors.
Author : Ernest Henry Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Plant Hunting written by Ernest Henry Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gabriel Hemery
Publisher : Unbound Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789650240
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (896 download)
Download or read book Green Gold written by Gabriel Hemery and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2019-04-18 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1850, young Scottish plant hunter John Jeffrey was despatched by an elite group of Victorian subscribers to seek highly prized exotic trees in North America. An early letter home told of a 1,200-mile transcontinental journey by small boat and on foot. Later, tantalising collections of seeds and plants arrived from British Columbia, Oregon and California, yet early promise soon withered. Four years after setting out, John Jeffrey, and his journals, disappeared without a trace. Was he lost to love, violence or the Gold Rush? Green Gold combines meticulous research with the fictional narrative of Jeffrey’s lost journals, revealing an extraordinary adventure.
Author : Anita Silvey
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 1466895292
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book The Plant Hunters written by Anita Silvey and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Driven by an all-consuming passion, the plant hunters traveled around the world, facing challenges at every turn: tropical illnesses, extreme terrain, and dangerous animals. They battled piranhas, tigers, and vampire bats. Even the plants themselves could be lethal! But these intrepid eighteenth- and nineteenth-century explorers were determined to find and collect new and unusual specimens, no matter what the cost. Then they tried to transport the plants—and themselves—home alive. Creating an important legacy in science, medicine, and agriculture, the plant hunters still inspire the scientific and environmental work of contemporary plant enthusiasts. Working from primary sources—journals, letters, and notes from the field—Anita Silvey introduces us to these daring adventurers and scientists. She takes readers into the heart of their expeditions to then-uncharted places such as the Amazon basin, China, and India. As she brings a colorful cast of characters to life, she shows what motivated these Indiana Jones–type heroes. In The Plant Hunters, science, history, and adventure have been interwoven to tell a largely forgotten—yet fascinating—story.
Author : Alex Preston
Publisher : Canongate Books
ISBN 13 : 1838854851
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (388 download)
Download or read book Winchelsea written by Alex Preston and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2022-02-03 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AS READ ON BBC RADIO 4 A SPECTATOR BEST OF THE YEAR - AS CHOSEN BY REVIEWERS The year is 1742. Goody Brown, saved from drowning and adopted when just a babe, has grown up happily in the smuggling town of Winchelsea. But when she turns sixteen, her father is murdered by men he thought were friends. In a town where lawlessness prevails, Goody and her brother Francis must enter the cut-throat world of her father’s killers in order to find justice. Facing high seas and desperate villains, she discovers what life can be like without constraints or expectations, developing a taste for danger that makes her blood run fast. Goody was never born to be a gentlewoman. But what will she become instead?
Author : Michael Sidney Tyler-Whittle
Publisher : Lyons Press
ISBN 13 : 9781558215924
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (159 download)
Download or read book The Plant Hunters written by Michael Sidney Tyler-Whittle and published by Lyons Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales of the botanist explorers who enriched our gardens.
Author : Brian Herne
Publisher : Holt Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 146686754X
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book White Hunters written by Brian Herne and published by Holt Paperbacks. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brian Herne's White Hunters: The Golden Age of African Safaris is the story of seventy years of African adventure, danger, and romance. East Africa affects our imagination like few other places: the sight of a charging rhino goes directly to the heart; the limitless landscape of bony highlands, desert, and mountain is, as Isak Dinesen wrote, of "unequalled nobility." White Hunters re-creates the legendary big-game safaris led by Selous and Bell and the daring ventures of early hunters into unexplored territories, and brings to life such romantic figures as Cape-to-Cairo Grogan, who walked 4,000 miles for the love of a woman, and Dinesen's dashing lover, Denys Finch. Witnesses to the richest wildlife spectacle on the earth, these hunters were the first conservationists. Hard-drinking, infatuated with risk, and careless in love, they inspired Hemingway's stories and movies with Clark Gable and Gregory Peck.
