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Explorers' botanical notebook : in the footsteps of Theophrastus, Marco Polo, Linnaeus, Flinders, Darwin, Speke and Hooker

Title
Explorers' botanical notebook : in the footsteps of Theophrastus, Marco Polo, Linnaeus, Flinders, Darwin, Speke and Hooker / text, Florence Thinard ; photographs, Yannick Fourie ; translation, Barb Collishaw.
Author
Thinard, Florence, 1962-
Publication
  • Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada : Firefly Books, 2016.
  • ©2016

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Additional Authors
  • Fourie, Yannick
  • Collishaw, Bob
Description
175 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps; 36 cm
Summary
"This book follows the journey of over 80 pioneering botanists and the important findings and collections they have made. It includes each journey and routes taken with the help of maps and personal notes. Each story explains the complications and difficulties that each botanist had to overcome but the many discoveries made along the way."--
Uniform Title
Herbier des explorateurs. English
Alternative Title
Herbier des explorateurs.
Subject
  • Plant collectors > Biography
  • Botanists > Biography
  • Botany > History
  • Botanists > Travel
  • Scientific expeditions > History
  • Herbaria
Note
  • Translation of: L'herbier des explorateurs : sur les traces de Théophraste, Jussieu, La Pérouse, Darwin, Livingstone, Monod.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 164-166) and index.
Contents
Introduction. Voyages to plants unknown -- Portraits of the botanical explorers.
Call Number
JFG 17-27
ISBN
  • 9781770857636
  • 177085763X
OCLC
945359257
Author
Thinard, Florence, 1962- author.
Title
Explorers' botanical notebook : in the footsteps of Theophrastus, Marco Polo, Linnaeus, Flinders, Darwin, Speke and Hooker / text, Florence Thinard ; photographs, Yannick Fourie ; translation, Barb Collishaw.
Publisher
Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada : Firefly Books, 2016.
Copyright Date
©2016
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 164-166) and index.
Added Author
Fourie, Yannick, photographer.
Collishaw, Bob, translator.
Research Call Number
JFG 17-27
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