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The Plant Hunter

Author : Cassandra Leah Quave
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1984879138
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book The Plant Hunter written by Cassandra Leah Quave and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-06-14 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The uplifting, adventure-filled memoir of one groundbreaking scientist’s quest to develop new ways to fight illness and disease through the healing powers of plants. “A fascinating and deeply personal journey.” —Amy Stewart, author of Wicked Plants and The Drunken Botanist Traveling by canoe, ATV, mule, airboat, and on foot, Dr. Cassandra Quave has conducted field research everywhere from the flooded forests of the remote Amazon to the isolated mountaintops in Albania and Kosovo—all in search of natural compounds, long-known to traditional healers, that could help save us all from the looming crisis of untreatable superbugs. Dr. Quave is a leading medical ethnobotanist—someone who identifies and studies plants that may be able to treat antimicrobial resistance and other threatening illnesses—helping to provide clues for the next generation of advanced medicines. And as a person born with multiple congenital defects of her skeletal system, she's done it all with just one leg. In The Plant Hunter, Dr. Quave weaves together science, botany, and memoir to tell us the extraordinary story of her own journey.

The Planthunter

Author : Georgina Reid
Publisher : Timber Press
ISBN 13 : 1604699647
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book The Planthunter written by Georgina Reid and published by Timber Press. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exciting and refreshing call to arms, The Planthunter is a new generation of gardening book for a new generation of gardener that encourages readers to fall in love with the natural world by falling in love with plants.

The Plant-Hunter's Atlas

Author : Ambra Edwards
Publisher : Greenfinch
ISBN 13 : 1529410126
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (294 download)

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Download or read book The Plant-Hunter's Atlas written by Ambra Edwards and published by Greenfinch. This book was released on 2021-05-27 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: RHS Staff Pick of the Year 2021 Spectator Gardening Book of the year 2021 'A refreshingly insightful history of plant introductions.' - Roy Lancaster Travel the world with extraordinary tales of the botanical discoveries that have shaped empires, built (and destroyed) economies, revolutionised medicine and advanced our understanding of science. Circling the globe from Australia's Botany Bay to the Tibetan plateau, from the deserts of Southern Africa to the jungles of Brazil, this book presents an incredible cast of characters - dedicated researchers and reckless adventurers, physicians, lovers and thieves. Meet dauntless Scots explorer David Douglas and visionary Prussian thinker Alexander von Humboldt, the 'Green Samurai' Mikinori Ogisu and the intrepid 17th century entomologist Maria Sibylla Merian - the first woman known to have made a living from science. Beautifully illustrated with over 100 botanical artworks from the archives of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, this absorbing book tells the stories of how plants have travelled across the world - from the missions of the Pharaohs right up to 21st century seed-banks and the many new and endangered species being named every year. *** THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, KEW is a world-famous research organisation and a major international visitor attraction. It harnesses the power of its science, the rich diversity of its gardens and collections to unearth why plants and fungi matter to everyone. Its aspiration is to end the extinction crisis and help create a world where nature and biodiversity are protected, valued and managed sustainably.

The Planthunter

Author : T. L. Mogford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781787399372
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book The Planthunter written by T. L. Mogford and published by . This book was released on 2022-02-17 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Plant Hunters, Or, Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains

Author : Mayne Reid
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Plant Hunters, Or, Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains written by Mayne Reid and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Plant Hunters

Author : Anita Silvey
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 1466895292
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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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 96 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.

The Plant Hunters

Author : Carolyn Fry
Publisher : Andre Deutsch
ISBN 13 : 9780233005164
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Plant Hunters written by Carolyn Fry and published by Andre Deutsch. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel across the world and through history to meet the botanical pioneers who changed our landscape. Plant Hunters tells the story of our obsession with all things that grow--both for their beauty and their economic potential--and the creation of botanical gardens to cultivate them. This sumptuous, intriguing volume moves from East to West and back again, introducing the botanists, explorers, and empire builders who gathered plants such as the coconut tree, roses, and numerous fruits and vegetables to bring back home. Showcasing hundreds of breathtaking illustrations and historical documents, it examines the species we now take for granted and the plants that have enriched and impoverished nations.

The Plant Hunter's Garden

Author : Bobby J. Ward
Publisher : Timber Press (OR)
ISBN 13 : 9780881926965
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (269 download)

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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.

The Plant Hunters

Author : Toby Musgrave
Publisher : Ward Lock Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780706377538
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (775 download)

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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.

George Forrest

Author : Brenda McLean
Publisher : Antique Collectors Club Dist
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book George Forrest written by Brenda McLean and published by Antique Collectors Club Dist. This book was released on 2004 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book on Forrest for 50 years, this publication tells of the adventures of this legendary plant hunter.

Robert Fortune

Author : Alistair Watt
Publisher : Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
ISBN 13 : 9781842466193
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (661 download)

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Download or read book Robert Fortune written by Alistair Watt and published by Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first full biography of the great Scottish plant collector Robert Fortune, famous for working in China and Japan from 1843 until 1861. This detailed presentation of his life includes an extensive analysis of his travels, plant collections and introductions, including the first maps ever produced of his collecting itineraries in China. Watt reveals that in order for Fortune to travel into the interior of China in search of new garden plants for the (later, Royal) Horticultural Society of London he had to adopt Chinese disguise, as it had been forbidden for Europeans to leave the confines of a few coastal Treaty ports. After the successful first expedition, Fortune made four more journeys to the Far East, including China, Taiwan and Japan in search of horticultural novelties. He succeeded admirably and very many of his discoveries are garden plants today. Two of his major expeditions were made in the employ of the British East India Company to aid the introduction of the tea industry into India and another expedition was carried out to investigate a possible tea industry in the USA. It has been a commonly accepted theme that Fortune was in some way 'a tea thief' and a 'spy'; the research in this book shows a completely different story. Using much new material Watt sets out to give a full account of the man, his explorations in 19th century China and the plants that he introduced into our gardens.

Flower Hunters

Author : Mary Gribbin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0192807188
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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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.

The Sakura Obsession

Author : Naoko Abe
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0525519904
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book The Sakura Obsession written by Naoko Abe and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each year, the flowering of cherry blossoms marks the beginning of spring. But if it weren’t for the pioneering work of an English eccentric, Collingwood “Cherry” Ingram, Japan’s beloved cherry blossoms could have gone extinct. Ingram first fell in love with the sakura, or cherry tree, when he visited Japan on his honeymoon in 1907 and was so taken with the plant that he brought back hundreds of cuttings with him to England. Years later, upon learning that the Great White Cherry had virtually disappeared from Japan, he buried a living cutting from his own collection in a potato and repatriated it via the Trans-Siberian Express. In the years that followed, Ingram sent more than 100 varieties of cherry tree to new homes around the globe. As much a history of the cherry blossom in Japan as it is the story of one remarkable man, The Sakura Obsession follows the flower from its significance as a symbol of the imperial court, through the dark days of the Second World War, and up to the present-day worldwide fascination with this iconic blossom.

Modern Plant Hunters

Author : S. Primrose
Publisher : Pimpernel Press
ISBN 13 : 9781910258781
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (587 download)

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Download or read book Modern Plant Hunters written by S. 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: Much has been published on the topic of plant hunting, and almost all of it is about the plant hunters of the so-called `golden age' that ended with the death of Frank Kingdon Ward in 1958. One might be forgiven for thinking that plant hunting itself came to an end in 1958 - but nothing could be further from the truth. On the contrary, there have been more new plant introductions in the past thirty years than ever before. This book tells the stories of the modern-day plant hunters - such pioneering adventurers as Mikinori Ogisu, Dan Hinkley, Ed de Vogel, Lin Yu-Lin, Bill Terry and Claire Scobie. The author examines the search for medicinal plants and the work of scientific institutions, both of which have been largely ignored and considers such developments as the effect of habitat destruction on plant loss and plant diversity.

The Plant Messiah

Author : Carlos Magdalena
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 038554362X
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book The Plant Messiah written by Carlos Magdalena and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carlos Magdalena is a man on a mission: to save the world’s most endangered plants. In The Plant Messiah, Magdalena takes readers from the forests of Peru to deep within the Australian outback in search of the rare and the vulnerable. Back in the lab—at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, home of the largest botanical collection in the world—we watch as he develops groundbreaking, left-field techniques for rescuing species from extinction, encouraging them to propagate and thrive once again. Passionate and absorbing, The Plant Messiah is a tribute to the diversity of life on our planet, and to the importance of preserving it.

The Bulb Hunter

Author : Chris Wiesinger
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1623490022
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (234 download)

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Download or read book The Bulb Hunter written by Chris Wiesinger and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-27 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dubbed the Bulb Hunter in a 2006 New York Times feature story, Chris Wiesinger took his passion for bulbs to vacant lots, abandoned houses, cemeteries, and construction sites throughout the South in search of botanical survivors whose descendants had never seen the inside of a big-box chain store. The vintage specimens Wiesinger sought came from hardy, historic stock, adapted to human neglect and hot climates, reappearing faithfully over decades without care or cultivation. Traveling back roads, speaking to strangers, looking for the telltale color of a remnant iris or lily, Wiesinger started digging, then began trying to grow and share the bulbs he collected. From its humble beginnings on an East Texas sweet potato farm, his Southern Bulb Company has now grown into a full-fledged business known throughout the world, propagating and selling the rare, tough, heritage plants Wiesinger still seeks out and champions. Nicknamed “Flower” by his fellow cadets at Texas A&M University, Wiesinger relates his adventures in bulb hunting, telling stories of the bulbs he has discovered and weaving in his own life story as a student, plantsman, and small business owner. He then teams with veteran horticulturist William C. Welch to provide advice on how to grow and appreciate the bulbs that have been rescued and reintroduced. This “primer” gives gardeners information on what bulbs to grow where, when to plant them and when they bloom, and how to incorporate them with other plants in the landscape. Finally, Welch describes how bulbs have enhanced his personal gardens and brought him and Wiesinger together in the common cause of heirloom gardening. Entertaining, informative, and loaded with beautiful photographs, The Bulb Hunter is sure to be a favorite of gardeners and plant lovers everywhere.

The Orchid Hunter

Author : Leif Bersweden
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1780723350
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book The Orchid Hunter written by Leif Bersweden and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2018-04-12 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He has just a few months to complete his quest – no one has ever done it before within one growing season – and it will require ingenuity, stamina and a large dose of luck.As he battles the vagaries of the British climate, feverishly chasing each emerging bloom, Leif Bersweden takes the reader on a remarkable botanical journey.This study of the 52 native species is a fantastic gateway into the compendious world of orchids – one that will open your eyes to the rare hidden delights to be found on our doorstep.Like Two Owls at Eton and My Family and Other Animals, The Orchid Hunter is a charming account of a precocious adolescent’s obsession with the natural world.Leif’s enthusiasm for his quest is infectious, as is the quiet conviction with which he keeps at it, showing how plant hunting can be the ultimate mindful activity.