Description
ISBN 978 1 928224 47 1
This is a 168 paged soft-cover book.
This is an account of the first impressions and collections of two adventurous South African botanists Otto Leistner and Bernard de Winter (1924-2017).
They returned with 845 collected specimens, 32 of which turned out to be new to science.
Having no detailed maps, no standardised place names they measured their distance in miles.
With no radio they wrote letters.
Taking the armchair botanist on an enterprising journey presented in diary format.
Presenting the reader with tales of high adventure and descriptions of the exquisite landscape, vegetation and botanical treasures.
With 87 photographs helping the reader on the way some black and white others colour.
- By Leistner O A
- Published 2022
- SANBI Biodiversity Series 31
Weight: 0.675 Kg
Size: 30 cm x 21 cm x 1 cm
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