📗 Libro en inglés THE PLANT-HUNTERS ATLAS

RHS Staff Pick of the Year 2021 Spectator Gardening Book of the year 2021 A refreshingly insightful history of plant introductions Roy Lancaster Travel the world with extraordinary tales of the botanical discoveries that have shaped empires built and destroyed economies revolutionised medicine and advanced our understanding of science Circling the globe from Australia s Botany Bay to the Tibetan plateau from the deserts of Southern Africa to the jungles of Brazil this book presents an incredible cast of characters dedicated researchers and reckless adventurers physicians lovers and thieves Meet dauntless Scots explorer David Douglas and visionary Prussian thinker Alexander von Humboldt the Green Samurai Mikinori Ogisu and the intrepid 17th century entomologist Maria Sibylla Merian the first woman known to have made a living from science Beautifully illustrated with over 100 botanical artworks from the archives of the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew this absorbing book tells the stories of how plants have travelled across the world from the missions of the Pharaohs right up to 21st century seed banks and the many new and endangered species being named every year THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS KEW is a world famous research organisation and a m