Linnaeus: The Compleat Naturalist

by Wilfrid Jasper Walter Blunt and Wilfrid Blunt

Book Overview

The life of Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778), the man who gave living organisms two Latin names, is celebrated afresh in this newly revised and magnificently illustrated edition of the definitive biography. In his native Sweden, Linnaeus is revered by children as the "Prince of Flowers" and by adults as a great biologist, the author of classics on natural history, and, owing to his impassioned study of the sex life of plants, as history's foremost "botanical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691096368
• ISBN13: 9780691096360
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.1" x 10.1"