Plant Hunting for Kew

Second-Hand. Published by: HMSO. Paperback. Condition: Very good. first edition softback. colour frontis, colour and b/w photos and illus in text throughout, endpaper maps. Ever since the middle of the 18th century, the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew have been finding, cultivating and introducing plants previously unknown to science. This contains 20 accounts of specimen-hunting safaris to remote corners of the world over the last few decades. A good read.