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The Plant Hunters: True Stories Of Their Daring Adventures To The Far Corners Of The Earth (2012)

by Anita Silvey(Favorite Author)

3.83 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0374309086 (ISBN13: 9780374309084)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

review 1: I read this aloud to my 8 year old. While it held his attention, I had to whip out all of my acting skills. I felt like for all the zinging statements, it was a little redundant. I kind of want to go back through and take notes to figure out exactly how much actual content is in this book. That said, the idea of it is interesting, I learned a bit about something I'd never previously given thought, and the photos and drawings were exceptional.
review 2: This book was somewhat different than I expected, but was very good never-the-less. When I started I thought that all of the chapters would be like the first, a mini biography of the exploits of a plant hunter. This is not the case. Each chapter is woven around an idea - why they collected plants, getting pla... morents (or the hunters themselves) home safely, finding valuable plants, and modern plant "geeks". Each chapter shows vignettes of different plant hunters and how their work demonstrates the idea of the chapter. Another reviewer stated that she felt smarter after reading this book. I must agree. less

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