The Plant Messiah

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