Joseph Hooker: Botanical Trailblazer

by Pat Griggs and Jim Endersby

Book Overview

Joseph Hooker (1817-1911) was a groundbreaking botanist who circled the globe discovering, describing, naming, or introducing over 12,000 plants that have since changed the makeup of our gardens and landscape. His plant collecting expeditions, first to Antarctica and later to India and the Himalayas, and his publications, many of which were illustrated by the prolific Victorian botanical artist Walter Hood Fitch, secured his reputation in the scientific...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1842464698
• ISBN13: 9781842464694
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 9.2" x 7.4"