Chasing Plants: Journeys with a Botanist Through Rainforests, Swamps, and Mountains
Chasing Plants: Journeys with a Botanist Through Rainforests, Swamps, and Mountains A New Scientist Best Book of the YearFrom an acclaimed botanist and artist, a thrilling and beautifully illustrated…
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Chasing Plants: Journeys with a Botanist Through Rainforests, Swamps, and Mountains
A New Scientist Best Book of the YearFrom an acclaimed botanist and artist, a thrilling and beautifully illustrated expedition around the globe in search of the world's most extraordinary plants.After making a strange discovery on a childhood trip to Ikea--a stand of sap-sucking, leafless broomrapes, stealing nutrients from their neighbors' roots--Chris Thorogood dreamed of becoming a botanist and would stop at nothing to feed his growing addiction to plants. Along the way, he encounters pitcher plants, irises, and orchids more heart-piercingly beautiful than could ever be imagined.But with Thorogood as our guide in In his hair-raising adventures across Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, Thorogood treads a death-defying path over cliffs, up erupting volcanoes, through typhoons, and out into the very heart of the world's vast, green wilderness.