Botanical exploration of Southern Africa : an illustrated history of early botanical literature on the Cape flora : biographical accounts of the leading plant collectors and their activities in Southern Africa from the days of the East India Company until modern times / by H.F. Glen and G. Germishuizen, compilers.

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Strelitzia ; 26.
Main Author: Glen, H. F. (Hugh F.)
Other Authors: Germishuizen, Gerrit
Gunn, Mary
Language:English
Published: Pretoria : South African National Biodiversity Institute, 2010.
Edition:Edition second.
Series:Strelitzia ; 26.
Subjects:
Botany > Africa, Southern > History.
Botanists > Africa, Southern > Biography.
Plant collectors > Africa, Southern > Biography.
Botanical illustration > History.
Botanical literature > History.
Genre:
Biography.
Physical Description:ix, 489 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits, facsimiles ; 31 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • pt. 1. Historical outline up to about 1750. 1. Voyages of discovery
  • 2. Pioneer observers
  • 3. Early botanical collections and illustrations
  • 4. Early plants appear in print
  • Settlement at the Cape
  • Hermann and Ten Rhyne
  • The Van der Stel period
  • The Tulbagh period
  • pt. 2. Dictionary of plant collectors.