Gribbin john 1946 (2 Ergebnisse)

hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. includes dust-jacket. DETAILS: very good dust-jacket, cover price $27.95, very good black cloth, some foxing on top foredge, sewn binding and little sign of any use. BUT with pleasant 4-line gift inscription in ink on half-title page. GRIBBIN, MARY / GRIBBIN, JOHN, 1946-. Flower hunters. Oxford: University Press, 2008, 1st printing number line 1, x, 332pp., . "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" - CONTENTS: Introduction -- Prologue : John Ray (1627-1705) -- 1. Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) -- 2. Joseph Banks (1743-1820) -- 3. Francis Masson (1741-1805) and Carl Peter Thunberg (1742-1828) -- 4. David Douglas (1799-1834) -- 5. William Lobb (1809-1864) and Thomas Lobb (1817-1894) -- 6. Robert Fortune (1812-1880) -- 7. Marianne North (1830-1890) -- 8. Richard Spruce (1817-1893) -- 9. Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911) -- Notes -- Sources and further reading -- Index. ISBN 9780192807182. …

4th edition. Very good paperback copy; edges slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, and clean. Physical description: 272 pages. Notes: Includes bibliography and index. Subjects: Hawking, Stephen 1942-2018. Physicists Great Britain Biography. Astrophysics. Physics Research. Cosmology Research. Astrophysicists Great Britain Biography. Hawking, s. - physics - biographies and critical appraisal. 1 Kg. …