Mary Gribbin

"This is the story of eleven flower hunters - remarkable, eccentric, obsessive men and women who between them travelled to every corner of the world in search of new and exotic plants. They were founding figures of the new science of botany. For these intrepid adventurers, the search for undiscovered plant specimens was something worth risking their lives, and some did not return. Flower Hunters tells of their lives, their adventures, their scientific...