Flower Hunters

Description:

The flower hunters were intrepid explorers - remarkable, eccentric men and women who scoured the world in search of extraordinary plants from the middle of the seventeenth to the end of the nineteenth century, and helped establish the new science of botany. For these adventurers, the search for new, undiscovered plant specimens was something worth risking - and often losing - their lives for. --[Publisher description].

subjects: Botanists,  Plant collectors,  Plant collecting,  Biography,  History,  Plants, collection and preservation,  Botany, history