Plant Hunters: How Exotic Plants Came to Our Gardens

The bountiful prey of plant hunters shaped empires, provided economic prosperity, revolutionized medicine and advanced our understanding of science. This book presents extraordinary men and women - eager explorers, daring adventurers, medics and thieves. In search of the 'green gold', they traveled to all corners of the earth and endured unimaginable hardships. It is thanks to the daring of plant hunters that countless flowers and crops enrich our gardens and our lives. The stunning illustrations in this book come from over 100 illustrations from the archives of the Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew. .