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| #1481859 in Books | 2008-04-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 6.20 x1.40 x9.30l, | File type: PDF | 332 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| great|By C. M. Stahl|Since the 1935 publication of Paul de Kruif’s Microbe Hunter’s writers have been borrowing his style. de Kruif must roll in his grave imagining that he created a style of writing that appears to be deathless. It is a biographically driven history of science spanning a length of time to show how technology and cumulative scientific literature bec|From Publishers Weekly|Veteran science writers, the Gribbins (Richard Feynman: A Life in Science) tell the stories of 11 18th- and 19th-century botanical explorers. Two were Swedes, including the renowned taxonomist Carl Linnaeus, who botanized in Lapland
The flower hunters were intrepid explorers - remarkable, eccentric men and women who scoured the world in search of extraordinary plants from the middle of the seventeenth to the end of the nineteenth century, and helped establish the new science of botany. For these adventurers, the search for new, undiscovered plant specimens was something worth risking - and often losing - their lives for.
From the Douglas-fir and the monkey puzzle tree, to exotic orchids an...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Flower Hunters | John Gribbin, Mary Gribbin. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
