The story of Professor Ghillean Prance, from his earliest days as a young scientist at Oxford, to expeditions across the Amazon searching for new species of plants, facing upturned boats and plane crashes en route, to Director of Kew (1988- 1999). Now a famed international speaker and conservationist, Prance is a scientific advisor to the Eden project. Illustrated with 40 pages of plates, many in colour.
- ISBN13 9781900347761
- Publish Date 11 July 2001
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Royal Botanic Gardens
- Imprint Kew Publishing
- Edition 2nd Revised edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 219
- Language English