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Flower Hunters
by John Gribbin, Mary Gribbin
from Oxford University Press, USA
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Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 
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Hunting Flowers
I have been an avid reader of John and Mary Gribbin for a number of years. The Flower Hunters is another fine example of their work. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and would recommend it to all of my friends. Being someone who generally reads hard-core science, I found it an interesting distraction to get away from the technical side of writing.
I applaud their efforts and hope that they keep up the great work.
Mr. Bill
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Adventures in botany
John Gribbin is best known for his science books, but this is something completely different. Hardly any science but lots of adventures and biography of mostly 19th century explorers who risked life and limb (and sometimes lost one or the other) searching for new kinds of plants to take back to the civilized world. People crazy enough to climb high mountains with no equipment for the sheer fun of it, explorers who ventured into the Amazonian rainforest and suffered disease, poisonous stinging insects and... more info
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