TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bersweden,Leif
AU  - Dunne, Evie,
TI  - The orchid hunter: a young botanist's search for happiness 
SN  - 1780723342
PY  - 2017///
CY  - London
PB  - Short Books
KW  - Bersweden, Leif.
KW  - Orchids
KW  - Great Britain
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
UR  - https://depts.washington.edu/hortlib/book/the-orchid-hunter/
ER  -