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Item Nr: B 114848 Title: Plant Hunters: True Stories of Their Daring Adventures to the Far Corners of the Earth
Grade Lvl: IJ Author: Silvey, Anita
Length: 88 Prod/Pub: Farrar Straus Giroux
Copyright: 2012 Series:
Book Type: N Biographee:
Copies: 2 Loan Period: 42 days
 
  Uses primary source materials to introduce explorers from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries who traveled the world to discover, collect, and transport new and unusual plants in the name of science. Plants History. Plant collectors. AR 8.3 RC 9.8 Lexile 1170 IL 4-9.

  Subjects:
  13 - ADVENTURE AND ADVENTURERS
  1202 - BIOGRAPHY--COLLECTIONS
  1886 - BIOLOGISTS
  222 - BOTANY
  1850 - COLLECTORS AND COLLECTING
  480 - EXPLORERS
  782 - NATURALISTS
  784 - NATURE STUDY
  867 - PLANTS
  1840 - PRIMARY SOURCES