The orchid hunter : a young botanist's search for happiness /
Bersweden, Leif
The orchid hunter : a young botanist's search for happiness / Leif Bersweden. - 363 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Introduction: A bee's eye view -- Shakespeare's long purples -- Stumped by Ireland's Mediterranean orchid -- The loose flowers of Jersey -- The lady of the woods and her hanged man -- Orchids of the Emerald Isle -- Swords of the Hampshire Hangers -- The desirable category of very rare orchids -- Butterflies and burnt tips -- The lady's slipper -- The curse of the coralroot -- Finding the fragrants -- Those little green ones -- Mimic -- Queen of the Cotswolds -- Orchids of the Western Isles -- Midsummer musk -- Holy helleborines -- Ghost hunting -- August orchids -- Spirals by the sea
He has just a few months to complete his quest - no one has ever done it before - and it will require ingenuity, stamina and a large dose of luck. Like Two Owls at Eton and My Family and Other Animals, this is a charming, witty account of a precocious adolescent's obsession with the natural world. As he battles the vagaries of the British climate in his clapped-out car, feverishly chasing each emerging bloom, Leif Bersweden takes the reader on a remarkable botanical journey. This study of the 52 native species is a fantastic gateway into the compendious world of orchids - one that will open your eyes to the rare hidden delights to be found on hilltops and riverbanks, in woodland, marsh and field.
1780723342 9781780723341
Bersweden, Leif.
Orchids--Great Britain.
The orchid hunter : a young botanist's search for happiness / Leif Bersweden. - 363 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Introduction: A bee's eye view -- Shakespeare's long purples -- Stumped by Ireland's Mediterranean orchid -- The loose flowers of Jersey -- The lady of the woods and her hanged man -- Orchids of the Emerald Isle -- Swords of the Hampshire Hangers -- The desirable category of very rare orchids -- Butterflies and burnt tips -- The lady's slipper -- The curse of the coralroot -- Finding the fragrants -- Those little green ones -- Mimic -- Queen of the Cotswolds -- Orchids of the Western Isles -- Midsummer musk -- Holy helleborines -- Ghost hunting -- August orchids -- Spirals by the sea
He has just a few months to complete his quest - no one has ever done it before - and it will require ingenuity, stamina and a large dose of luck. Like Two Owls at Eton and My Family and Other Animals, this is a charming, witty account of a precocious adolescent's obsession with the natural world. As he battles the vagaries of the British climate in his clapped-out car, feverishly chasing each emerging bloom, Leif Bersweden takes the reader on a remarkable botanical journey. This study of the 52 native species is a fantastic gateway into the compendious world of orchids - one that will open your eyes to the rare hidden delights to be found on hilltops and riverbanks, in woodland, marsh and field.
1780723342 9781780723341
Bersweden, Leif.
Orchids--Great Britain.