From the Ends of the Earth : Dedicated to Sir Joseph Banks. [That magic moment; My garden arrangement; Remembering Sir Joseph Banks; Plants I Owe Linnaeus & His Apostles & Contemporaries; Orchidmania & Tulipomania; Camellias & China]
by Lamb, Christian.[Liz Cowley, Tony Eckersley, Rosemary Gooding, Mike Phillips, Meriel Thurstan, Clare Travers, Anne Barclay, Charles Francis, Jack Scheper; Benjamin West, Sidney Parkinson, Fitch, Vincent Brooks, Sydenham Edwards, Thomas Phillips, Red
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Honiton : Bene Factum, 2004., 2004. Fine. v, 224 pp. ; illustrated, portraits ; 26 cm. ; ISBN: 1903071089 (hbk.); 9781903071083 (hbk.) ; OCLC: 76350731 or OCLC: 76797328 ; green cloth with gold lettering in color photographic dustjacket ; "What risks did early plant collectors take to bring us the plants we know and love? Who found what and where? And how similar are their finds to the plants we grow today? Christian Lamb has been to extraordinary lengths to find out, as we soon discover...Christian also gaily recounts her own intrepid adventures following in the footsteps of the early collectors: around New Zealand in the wake of Joseph Banks, up the Yangtze after Robert Fortune, to North, South and Central America in the paths of Lewis and Clark, the Lobb brothers, and other s..." ; filled with color photographs of rare plants and reproductions of illustrations from important botanicals ; FINE/FINE
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- From the Ends of the Earth : Dedicated to Sir Joseph Banks. [That magic moment; My garden arrangement; Remembering Sir Joseph Banks; Plants I Owe Linnaeus & His Apostles & Contemporaries; Orchidmania & Tulipomania; Camellias & China]
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- Lamb, Christian.[Liz Cowley, Tony Eckersley, Rosemary Gooding, Mike Phillips, Meriel Thurstan, Clare Travers, Anne Barclay, Charles Francis, Jack Scheper; Benjamin West, Sidney Parkinson, Fitch, Vincent Brooks, Sydenham Edwards, Thomas Phillips, Red
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- ISBN 10
- 1903071089
- ISBN 13
- 9781903071083
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- Honiton : Bene Factum, 2004.
- Place of Publication
- Honiton
- Date Published
- 2004
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- joseph banks botanists botany horticulture england france china orchids tulips camellias lewisias redwoods flora hydrangea australia japanese cherry chusan palm botanicals agapanthus roses henry compton napoleon josephine malmaison fuchsia bougainvi
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