From the Ends of the Earth. [Author SIGNED copy.]

UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn. FINE+/FINE. No owner inscrptn,but author's neat,handwritten,blue ink signature - without dedication - towards foot of half-title page,and no price-clip to dw/dj - virtually as new.Bright, crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour photographic illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners unread? Publisher's bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,original dark green cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj, author SIGNED,1st edn,iv-vpp+1-225pp (last paginated page is blank) includes acknowledgements+credits,a contents list/table,colour photographic botanical (Echium wildpretti) frntis,14 chapters,profuse botanical colour photographs and colour illustrated botanical reproductions throughout the text and the book,and an index. Plus [unpaginated] author SIGNED half-title page,and a title page.
'What risks did the 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 in 'From the ends of the Earth'.
This lively and richly-illustrated book is all about the special plants that Christian grows in her small garden in Cornwall,which she calls her 'Living Plant Museum'.The plants are mostly chosen because she likes them,but also for their fascinating and colourful history.
Christian tells us which collectors found her treasures - and the amazing challenges they faced bringing them back to our shores - with many quotes from diaries and personal writings which bring her hero plantaholics to life.She has dug deep into the Linnean,Kew,British,Royal Horticultural and Natural History Libraries to unearth all kinds of new or little-known facts.
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 Meriwether Lewis and Captn William Clark,the Lobb brothers (Thomas and William) and
others - all the more inspiring since Christian is a spry octogenarian,who might by now have been expected to have hung up her spade.
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