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