The Plant Hunters: Being an Examination of Collecting with an Account of the Careers & the Methods of a Number...

The Plant Hunters: Being an Examination of Collecting with an Account of the Careers & the Methods of a Number...
ISBN-10
1558215921
ISBN-13
9781558215924
Series
The Plant Hunters
Category
Botanical specimens
Pages
281
Language
English
Published
1970
Publisher
Lyons Press
Author
Michael Sidney Tyler-Whittle

Description

Tales of the botanist explorers who enriched our gardens.

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