London: Exisle Publishing, (2024. second edition), Octavo, paperback, colour photographs and illustrations. Illustrated with beautiful period botanical watercolours and vibrant photographs ‘The Secrets of Great Botanists’ delves into the lives of 35 revolutionary botanists driven by an insatiable desire to learn and discover, so that we might benefit from improved..... More
Sydney: NewSouth Publishing, 2023. Octavo, paperback, Who gets to collect plants, name them, propagate them, extract their chemicals, sell them and use them? Whose knowledge is it? And what can the people that work with plants, just outside the law, teach us about plant care? In The Plant Thieves, Prudence..... More
London: Kew Publishing, 2020. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour illustrations. Sir Joseph Banks was a true botanical adventurer and pioneer. Not only did he reveal the flora wonders of the South Seas, New Zealand and Australia to Europan eyes, but he set Kew Gardens on its path to becoming the world's foremost..... More
London: HMSO, 1989. Quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
London: Ward Lock, 1998. Octavo, colour illustrations, maps, a very good copy in dustwrapper. More
London: Pimpernel Press, 2019. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs. Much has been published on the topic of plant hunting, and almost all of it is about the plant hunters of the so-called 'golden age' that ended with the death of Frank Kingdon Ward in 1958. One might be forgiven for thinking..... More
Lavers Hill: Author, 2018. Quarto, paperback, photographs, other illustrations, maps. This volume represents the first in depth biographical study of the life of the often forgotten plant hunter William Purdom and estate owner Reginald Farrer. Both men were born in 1880, the year of the death of Robert Fortune, and..... More