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Author : Francis Kingdon Ward
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Romance of Plant Hunting written by Francis Kingdon Ward and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Francis Kingdon Ward
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)
Download or read book Plant Hunting written by Francis Kingdon Ward and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cassandra Leah Quave
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1984879138
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Plant Hunter written by Cassandra Leah Quave and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-06-14 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Francis Kingdon Ward
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Romance of Plant Hunting written by Francis Kingdon Ward and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : T. L. Mogford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781787399372
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Planthunter written by T. L. Mogford and published by . This book was released on 2022-02-17 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chris Wiesinger
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1623490022
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Bulb Hunter written by Chris Wiesinger and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-27 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dubbed the Bulb Hunter in a 2006 New York Times feature story, Chris Wiesinger took his passion for bulbs to vacant lots, abandoned houses, cemeteries, and construction sites throughout the South in search of botanical survivors whose descendants had never seen the inside of a big-box chain store. The vintage specimens Wiesinger sought came from hardy, historic stock, adapted to human neglect and hot climates, reappearing faithfully over decades without care or cultivation. Traveling back roads, speaking to strangers, looking for the telltale color of a remnant iris or lily, Wiesinger started digging, then began trying to grow and share the bulbs he collected. From its humble beginnings on an East Texas sweet potato farm, his Southern Bulb Company has now grown into a full-fledged business known throughout the world, propagating and selling the rare, tough, heritage plants Wiesinger still seeks out and champions. Nicknamed “Flower” by his fellow cadets at Texas A&M University, Wiesinger relates his adventures in bulb hunting, telling stories of the bulbs he has discovered and weaving in his own life story as a student, plantsman, and small business owner. He then teams with veteran horticulturist William C. Welch to provide advice on how to grow and appreciate the bulbs that have been rescued and reintroduced. This “primer” gives gardeners information on what bulbs to grow where, when to plant them and when they bloom, and how to incorporate them with other plants in the landscape. Finally, Welch describes how bulbs have enhanced his personal gardens and brought him and Wiesinger together in the common cause of heirloom gardening. Entertaining, informative, and loaded with beautiful photographs, The Bulb Hunter is sure to be a favorite of gardeners and plant lovers everywhere.
Author : Ernest Henry Wilson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)
Download or read book Plant Hunting written by Ernest Henry Wilson and published by . This book was released on with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frank Kingdon Ward
Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN 13 : 0307828832
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)
Download or read book In the Land of the Blue Poppies written by Frank Kingdon Ward and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2012-10-17 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Modern Library Paperback Original During the first years of the twentieth century, the British plant collector and explorer Frank Kingdon Ward went on twenty-four impossibly daring expeditions throughout Tibet, China, and Southeast Asia, in search of rare and elusive species of plants. He was responsible for the discovery of numerous varieties previously unknown in Europe and America, including the legendary Tibetan blue poppy, and the introduction of their seeds into the world’s gardens. Kingdon Ward’s accounts capture all the romance of his wildly adventurous expeditions, whether he was swinging across a bottomless gorge on a cable of twisted bamboo strands or clambering across a rocky scree in fear of an impending avalanche. Drawn from writings out of print for almost seventy-five years, this new collection, edited and introduced by professional horticulturalist and House & Garden columnist Tom Christopher, returns Kingdon Ward to his deserved place in the literature of discovery and the literature of the garden.
Author : Carolyn Fry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781741801125
Total Pages : 63 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)
Download or read book Plant Hunters written by Carolyn Fry and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They can be more richly-hued than precious stones, more valuable than gold and as alluring as undiscovered lands. This is the story of rare and unusual plants, and the botanist explorers who risked neck and nation in search of them. Open this lushly illustrated and unique volume and encounter a treasure-trove of plant hunting history. It is teeming with over 100 detailed colour illustrations from the Royal Botanic Gardens archive in Kew, plus fascinating facsimile copies of memorabilia such as pages from Linnaeus' 1732 Lapland journal, botanical notebook and sketchbook extracts and specimen drawings. From the Ancient Egyptians to the 'discovery' of Australia, it is a story rich in adventure. This unique book comes in a sturdy outer casing and has many gatefolds throughout to enhance the spectacular images presented.
Author : Sharon Biggs Waller
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698187970
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Forbidden Orchid written by Sharon Biggs Waller and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The adventures of a British girl in China, hunting for the orchid that will save her family. Staid, responsible Elodie Buchanan is the eldest of ten sisters growing up in a small English market town in 1861. The girls barely know their father, a plant hunter usually off adventuring through China, more myth than man. Then disaster strikes: Mr. Buchanan reneges on his contract to collect an extremely rare and valuable orchid. He will be thrown into debtors’ prison while his daughters are sent to the orphanage and the workhouse. Elodie can’t stand by and see her family destroyed, so she persuades her father to return to China once more to try to hunt down the flower—only this time, despite everything she knows about her place in society, Elodie goes with him. She has never before left her village, but what starts as fear turns to wonder as she adapts to seafaring life aboard the tea clipper The Osprey, and later to the new sights, dangers, and romance of China. She comes to find that both the world and her place in it are so much bigger than she’d ever dreamed. But now, even if she can find the orchid, how can she ever go back to being the staid, responsible Elodie that everybody needs?
