This highly illustrated book explores Richard Spruce’s outstanding contribution to Amazonian botany. He explored South America for 15 years, from Para in Brazil to the Andes of Ecuador and Peru, discovered thousands of plants new to science and amassed information on their uses from local people. His work is still of major importance to today’s botanists studying the plants of the Amazon.
- ISBN13 9780947643942
- Publish Date 1 September 1996
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 21 December 2022
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Royal Botanic Gardens
- Imprint Kew Publishing
- Format Paperback
- Pages 359
- Language English