Joseph Hooker: Botanical Trailblazer - Softcover

Griggs, Pat

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1842464698 ISBN 13: 9781842464694

Publisher: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 2012

Synopsis

Joseph Hooker (1817–1911) was a groundbreaking botanist who circled the globe discovering, describing, naming, or introducing over 12,000 plants that have since changed the makeup of our gardens and landscape. His plant collecting expeditions, first to Antarctica and later to India and the Himalayas, and his publications, many of which were illustrated by the prolific Victorian botanical artist Walter Hood Fitch, secured his reputation in the scientific community and attracted the attention of Charles Darwin, who became a friend and confidante.             In 1865 Hooker succeeded his father Sir William Hooker as the director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. And in 1877 he took a highly successful expedition to the Western United States with the leading American botanist Asa Gray. With Joseph Hooker: Botanical Trailblazer, Pat Griggs and Jim Endersby present a compelling biography of one of the world’s great botanists through the many relationships that influenced his life and shaped his ideas.

About this title

About the Author:

Pat Griggs joined Kew in 1988 as a science writer and now works in the Conservation and Specialist Training team. 

About this edition

• Publisher: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1842464698
• ISBN 13: 9781842464694
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 64