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Michael Sidney Tyler‑Whittle’s *The Plant Hunters* charts the evolution of plant collecting from Queen Hatshepsut’s 1482 B.C. voyage to Punt through to today's botanical fieldwork. The book opens with a survey of early collectors, then focuses on Nathaniel Ward, inventor of the portable greenhouse, whose experimental methods laid the groundwork for systematic plant hunting. Finally, it chronicles the worldwide "Scramble for Green Treasure" that followed Ward’s innovations, exploring how botanists’ tactics and preservation techniques have steadily advanced toward modern conservation practices.
First publish date: 1970
Genre: History/Modern History
Authors: Michael Sidney Tyler-Whittle
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