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| 1. Sir Joseph Banks: A Global Perspective
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| Biography
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Fourteen papers drawing together the many threads of Banks's wide ranging interests and the world-wide influence he had in the progress and development of science, technology, horticulture, agriculture, trade and politics. 237pp. 245 x......
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£17.50 | €21.00
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| 2. A Botanist in Borneo - Hugh Low's Sarawak Journals
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| Biography
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An attractively presented book, consisting of the first publication of the plant-hunting diaries of the botanical collector, Hugh Low, who visited Sarawak during the years 1844-1846. The work includes 66 fine colour reproductions of plant p......
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£27.00 | €32.40
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| 3. A Passion for Plants: The Life and Vision of Ghillean Prance
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| Biography
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The story of Professor Ghillean Prance from his earliest days as a young scientist at Oxford, to expeditions across the Amazon searching for new species, facing upturned boats and plane crashes en route, to Director of Kew. Now a famed inte......
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£11.95 | €14.35
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| 4. Richard Spruce (1817-1893): Botanist and Explorer
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| Biography
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This book explores Richard Spruce's outstanding contribution to Amazonian botany. He explored South America for 15 years, from Para in Brazil to the Andes of Ecuador and Peru, discovered thousands of plants new to science, and amassed infor......
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£27.50 | €33.00
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| 5. Plant Collectors in Madagascar and the Comoro Islands
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| Biography
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Madagascar and the Comoro Islands have an unusual, highly endemic and rich flora. This single volume is a guide to the collections and literature relating to these islands' unique and vanishing plant life. It provides biographical informati......
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£60.00 | €72.00
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| 6. John Lightfoot: His Works and Travels.
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| Biography
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A fascinating and carefully researched biography of the first botanist to seriously record the native plants of Scotland. In addition to a study of his tour of Scotland, and of the publication of 'Flora Scotica', there are chapters on Light......
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£25.00 | €30.00
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