Recommendations from our site
“The first documented ascent of Kinabalu was made by a botanist called Sir Hugh Low in 1851 – one of an adventurous group of nineteenth century plant collectors. Spenser St. John was the Consul General of Brunei who joined these botanists’ adventures and he recorded lively descriptions of them in his book Life in the Forests of the Far East. Reading it, you really get a sense of their excitement upon seeing plants that, then, were unknown to science.” Read more...
Chris Thorogood, Biologist
Our most recommended books
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The Well-Tempered Garden
by Christopher Lloyd -
Handbook of Nature Study
by Anna Botsford Comstock -
Glasshouse Greenhouse: Haarkon's world tour of amazing botanical spaces
by India Hobson & Magnus Edmondson -
Riddle of the Tsangpo Gorges
by Frank Kingdon Ward -
The New Sylva: A Discourse of Forest and Orchard Trees for the Twenty-First Century
by Gabriel Hemery & Sarah Simblet -
The Digger Movement In The Days Of The Commonwealth, As Revealed In The Writings Of Gerrard Winstanley
by Lewis H Beren
