Driven by nature : a personal journey from Shanghai to botany and global sustainability / Peter H. Raven ; edited by Eric Engles.

"It's safe to say that few people have lived lives as thoroughly devoted to plants as Peter H. Raven has. The longtime director--now president emeritus--of the Missouri Botanical Garden, author of numerous leading textbooks and several hundred scholarly articles, Raven has been a tireless champion o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Raven, Peter H. (Author)
Corporate Author:	Missouri Botanical Garden (Issuing body)
Other Authors:	Engles, Eric (Editor) Wilson, Edward O. (author of foreword.)
Language:	English
Published:	St. Louis, Missouri : Missouri Botanical Garden Press, [2021]
Subjects:	Raven, Peter H. Botanists > United States > Biography. Conservationists > United States > Biography. Environmentalists > United States > Biography. Biodiversity conservation. Missouri Botanical Garden. Botanical gardens > Missouri > Saint Louis. Botanical gardens. Botanists. Conservationists. Environmentalists. Missouri > Saint Louis. United States. Autobiographies. Biographies.
Genre:	Biography. Autobiographies. Biographies.
Physical Description:	xvi, 359 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Format:	Book

Contents:

Foreword / by Edward O. Wilson
Preface
Family roots
A strange enchanted boy
Botanical prodigy
Formal training
England
Stanford
Expansion and changes
New Zealand
The Missouri Botanical Garden
Global reach
Conservation around the world
Champion of science, education, and international cooperation
Professional recognition and personal tumult
New adventures at career's end
Epilogue. Toward a green awakening
Appendix. Plants named for Peter H. Raven
Acknowledgments
Notes
Illustration sources and credits
Index.