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Verlag: Honiton : Bene Factum, 2004., 2004
ISBN 10: 1903071089ISBN 13: 9781903071083
Anbieter: Joseph Valles - Books, Stockbridge, GA, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. v, 224 pp. ; illustrated, portraits ; 26 cm. ; ISBN: 1903071089 (hbk.); 9781903071083 (hbk.) ; OCLC: 76350731 or OCLC: 76797328 ; green cloth with gold lettering in color photographic dustjacket ; "What risks did early plant collectors take to bring us the plants we know and love? Who found what and where? And how similar are their finds to the plants we grow today? Christian Lamb has been to extraordinary lengths to find out, as we soon discover.Christian also gaily recounts her own intrepid adventures following in the footsteps of the early collectors: around New Zealand in the wake of Joseph Banks, up the Yangtze after Robert Fortune, to North, South and Central America in the paths of Lewis and Clark, the Lobb brothers, and other s." ; filled with color photographs of rare plants and reproductions of illustrations from important botanicals ; FINE/FINE. Book.