Download or read book The Plant Hunter written by Cassandra Leah Quave and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-06-14 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The uplifting, adventure-filled memoir of one groundbreaking scientist’s quest to develop new ways to fight illness and disease through the healing powers of plants. “A fascinating and deeply personal journey.” —Amy Stewart, author of Wicked Plants and The Drunken Botanist Traveling by canoe, ATV, mule, airboat, and on foot, Dr. Cassandra Quave has conducted field research everywhere from the flooded forests of the remote Amazon to the isolated mountaintops in Albania and Kosovo—all in search of natural compounds, long-known to traditional healers, that could help save us all from the looming crisis of untreatable superbugs. Dr. Quave is a leading medical ethnobotanist—someone who identifies and studies plants that may be able to treat antimicrobial resistance and other threatening illnesses—helping to provide clues for the next generation of advanced medicines. And as a person born with multiple congenital defects of her skeletal system, she's done it all with just one leg. In The Plant Hunter, Dr. Quave weaves together science, botany, and memoir to tell us the extraordinary story of her own journey.
Download or read book Plant Hunting written by Ernest Henry Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Plant Hunting written by Ernest Henry Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Plant Hunters written by Anita Silvey and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Driven by an all-consuming passion, the plant hunters traveled around the world, facing challenges at every turn: tropical illnesses, extreme terrain, and dangerous animals. They battled piranhas, tigers, and vampire bats. Even the plants themselves could be lethal! But these intrepid eighteenth- and nineteenth-century explorers were determined to find and collect new and unusual specimens, no matter what the cost. Then they tried to transport the plants—and themselves—home alive. Creating an important legacy in science, medicine, and agriculture, the plant hunters still inspire the scientific and environmental work of contemporary plant enthusiasts. Working from primary sources—journals, letters, and notes from the field—Anita Silvey introduces us to these daring adventurers and scientists. She takes readers into the heart of their expeditions to then-uncharted places such as the Amazon basin, China, and India. As she brings a colorful cast of characters to life, she shows what motivated these Indiana Jones–type heroes. In The Plant Hunters, science, history, and adventure have been interwoven to tell a largely forgotten—yet fascinating—story.
Download or read book Plant Hunting The tropics The Orient written by Ernest Henry Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains written by Mayne Reid and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-28 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Plant Hunters is a story by Thomas Mayne Reid. We follow a new Bavarian plant scientist, Karl Linden, involved in a plant-hunting excursion to the vast peaks of the Himalayas.
Download or read book Plant Hunting written by Ernest Henry Wilson and published by . This book was released on with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Planthunter written by Georgina Reid and published by Timber Press. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exciting and refreshing call to arms, The Planthunter is a new generation of gardening book for a new generation of gardener that encourages readers to fall in love with the natural world by falling in love with plants.
Download or read book The Golden Age of Plant Hunters written by Kenneth Lemmon and published by Phoenix. This book was released on 1968 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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