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A Passion for Plants :From the Rainforests of Brazil to Kew Gardens - The Life and Vision of Ghillean Prance, Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
by Clive Langmead
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- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0745929621
- ISBN 13
- 9780745929620
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Oxford: Lion Publishing Plc. Very Good/Very Good. 1995. Hard Cover. 8vo 0745929621 Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks.. Photographs on plates. 201 pages clean and tight. Combining travel with scientific research and a whole range of ecological issues, Professor Ghillean Prance is a man whose faith informs and impacts on his work as the Director of Kew Gardens. His scientific specialization is in the field of taxonomy - the identification and classification of plants - carried out over a period of 20 years on the Amazon rainforest. Because of what he saw there, narrow specialization grew into wider involvement in ecology, with particular concern for the human dimension. Many trees and plants now threatened are an irreplaceable repository of medicine. This book includes two sections of photographs, most taken by Professor Prance himself. .
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- CHARLES BOSSOM
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 144120
- Title
- A Passion for Plants :From the Rainforests of Brazil to Kew Gardens - The Life and Vision of Ghillean Prance, Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
- Author
- Clive Langmead
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good/Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0745929621
- ISBN 13
- 9780745929620
- Publisher
- Lion Publishing Plc
- Place of Publication
- Oxford
- Date Published
- 1995
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