Sandra Knapp

Gebundenes Buch

In the Name of Plants

Remarkable plants and the extraordinary people behind their names

Beschreibung

In this lush and lively book, celebrated botanist Sandra Knapp explores the people whose names have been immortalized in plant genera, presenting little known stories about both the featured plants and their famous eponyms alongside photographs and botanical drawings from the unmatched collections of London's Natural History Museum.

Autor

Merit Researcher and Head of the Plants Division at the Natural History Museum in London, Sandra Knapp has spent many years collecting plants in tropical Central and South America. She is an expert on the plant family Solanaceae, which includes such economically important species as the potato and tomato, and is the author of several books including Alfred Russel Wallace in the Amazon, The Gilded Canopy and Extraordinary Orchids.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: The Natural History Museum
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 184mm x 238mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 826g
• ISBN-13: 9780565095352
• ISBN-10: 0565095358
• Artikelnr.: 63396498