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The Plant Hunters Or Adventures Among The Himalaya Mountains
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Author : Mayne Reid
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1858
The Plant Hunters Or Adventures Among The Himalaya Mountains written by Mayne Reid and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1858 with Adventure and adventurers categories.
The Plant Hunters
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Author : Anita Silvey
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Release Date : 2015-12-15
The Plant Hunters written by Anita Silvey and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-15 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
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
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Author : Mayne Reid
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1871
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The Plant Hunters
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Author : Captain Mayne Reid
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2018-05-15
The Plant Hunters written by Captain Mayne Reid and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-15 with Fiction categories.
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The Plant Hunters Or Adventures Among The Himalaya Mountains
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Author : Mayne Reid
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1859
The Plant Hunters Or Adventures Among The Himalaya Mountains written by Mayne Reid and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1859 with Adventure and adventurers categories.
The Plant Hunters
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Author : Michael Sidney Tyler-Whittle
language : en
Publisher: Lyons Press
Release Date : 1997
The Plant Hunters written by Michael Sidney Tyler-Whittle and has been published by Lyons Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Botanical specimens categories.
Tales of the botanist explorers who enriched our gardens.
The Plant Hunter
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Author : Cassandra Leah Quave
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2022-06-14
The Plant Hunter written by Cassandra Leah Quave and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-14 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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 Plant Hunters
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Author : Carolyn Fry
language : en
Publisher: Andre Deutsch
Release Date : 2017
The Plant Hunters written by Carolyn Fry and has been published by Andre Deutsch this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Plant collecting categories.
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 Golden Age Of Plant Hunters
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Author : Kenneth Lemmon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
The Golden Age Of Plant Hunters written by Kenneth Lemmon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with Science categories.
The Plant Hunters
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Author : Thomas Mayne Reid
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2013-07
The Plant Hunters written by Thomas Mayne Reid and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07 with categories.
"A Plant-Hunter! what is that? "We have heard of fox-hunters, of deer-hunters, of bear and buffalo-hunters, of lion-hunters, and of 'boy-hunters;' of a plant-hunter never. "Stay! Truffles are plants. Dogs are used in finding them; and the collector of these is termed a truffle-hunter. Perhaps this is what the Captain means?" No, my boy reader. Something very different from that. My plant-hunter is no fungus-digger. His occupation is of a nobler kind than contributing merely to the capricious palate of the gourmand. To his labours the whole civilised world is indebted-yourself among the rest. Yes, you owe him gratitude for many a bright joy. For the varied sheen of your garden you are indebted to him. The gorgeous dahlia that nods over the flower-bed-the brilliant peony that sparkles on the parterre-the lovely camelia that greets you in the greenhouse, -the kalmias, the azaleas, the rhododendrons, the starry jessamines, the gerania, and a thousand other floral beauties, are, one and all of them, the gifts of the plant-hunter. By his agency England-cold cloudy England-has become a garden of flowers, more varied in species and brighter in bloom than those that blossomed in the famed valley of Cashmere. Many of the noble trees that lend grace to our English landscape, -most of the beautiful shrubs that adorn our villas, and gladden the prospect from our cottage-windows, are the produce of his industry. But for him, many fruits, and vegetables, and roots, and berries, that garnish your table at dinner and dessert, you might never have tasted. But for him these delicacies might never have reached your lips. A good word, then, for the plant-hunter!