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 -
Feeding the Ten Billion
by L T Evans -
The Cabaret of Plants: Forty Thousand Years of Plant Life and the Human Imagination
by Richard Mabey -
Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
by Janisse Ray -
The Brief Life of Flowers
by Fiona Stafford -
Baburnama
by Wheeler M Thackston (translator) & Zahir al-Din Babur
