One up on the common or garden plant book is The Plant Hunters by Toby
Musgrave, Chris Gardner and Will Musgrave. It鈥檚 the stories (many harrowing) of
botanists as they collected specimens around the world. Broken legs, near
shipwrecks, francophone horses all add spice鈥攁s do the drawings and
photographs. Published by Ward Lock, 拢20, ISBN 0706377532.
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