- Published: 15 April 2018
- ISBN: 9780241979297
- Imprint: Viking
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 224
- RRP: $22.99
The Plant Messiah
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- Published: 15 April 2018
- ISBN: 9780241979297
- Imprint: Viking
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 224
- RRP: $22.99
Thrillingly uplifting, beguiling, compelling. Reads like a detective novel
Daily Mail
An entertaining, planterly romp around the world and a glimpse inside one of the world's great botanical institutions. Swimming with electric eels, discovering the world's smallest waterlily, and an endangered palm about to be weeded to extinction. Worthy of the nineteenth-century plant hunters, some of whom died for their calling
Jane Owen, Financial Times
An important, engaging piece of work
Literary Review
This full-throttle memoir is a window on the exploits that underpin the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . . . reveals the rare mix of zeal and patience needed to hunt vanishing plants
Nature
Marvellous. A swashbuckling narrative of adventures in the field . . . anywhere from Mauritius to South America
Richard Mabey, Daily Telegraph