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Humboldt State University Digital Commons @ Humboldt State University Botanical Studies Open Educational Resources and Data 2-2017 Exploring for Plants: A Bibliography James P. Smith Jr Humboldt State University, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.humboldt.edu/botany_jps Part of the Botany Commons Recommended Citation Smith, James P. Jr, "Exploring for Plants: A Bibliography" (2017). Botanical Studies. 24. http://digitalcommons.humboldt.edu/botany_jps/24 This Economic Botany - Ethnobotany is brought to you for free and open access by the Open Educational Resources and Data at Digital Commons @ Humboldt State University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Botanical Studies by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Humboldt State University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. EXPLORING FOR PLANTS: A BIBLIOGRAPHY James P. Smith, Jr. Professor Emeritus of Botany Department of Biological Sciences Humboldt State University Arcata, California 27 February 2017 The purpose of this bibliography is to introduce you the prehistory of Southeast Asia and Oceania. to books and papers on the exploration for plants, Oxford Univ. Press. New York, NY. 462 pp. mostly during the last three centuries. This compilation is in four parts: (1) general references, Bleichmar, D. 2012. Visible empire: botanical (2) famous plant explorers (botanists and expeditions and visual culture in the Hispanic otherwise), (3) expeditions and voyages that would Enlightenment. Univ. Chicago Press. Chicago, IL. bring back botanical discoveries, and (4) how two 288 pp. great human-mediated plant migrations brought knowledge of New World plants to the Old World Bretschneider, E. 1898. History of European and vice versa. botanical discoveries in China. Two vols. K. F. Koehlers Antiquarium. Leipzig. I will have to plead guilty to certain biases. I know more about the literature regarding New World Brockway, L. H. 1979. Science and colonial botanists and their explorations and more expansion: the role of the British Botanical Garden. particularly activity in North America and the Pacific Academic Press. New York, NY. 224 pp. Coast. Brosse, J. 1983. Great voyages of discovery: circumnavigators and scientists, 1764-1843. Facts on File. New York, NY. 228 pp. I: GENERAL REFERENCES Brown, D. (editor). 2003. The greatest exploration stories ever told. Lyons Press. Guilford, CT. 396 pp. Aiken, R. 2007. Botanical riches: stories of botanical exploration. Aldershot, U. K. 243 pp. Coats, A. M. 1969. The plant hunters. McGraw-Hill Books. New York, NY. 400 pp. Ambrose, S. 1996. Undaunted courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the opening of the Davis, W. 1996. One river: explorations and American West. Simon & Schuster. New York, NY. discoveries in the Amazon rain forest. Simon & 511 pp. Schuster. New York, NY. 537 pp. Anderson, B. 1960. Surveyor of the sea: the life and Dodge, B. S. 1979. It started in Eden: how the voyages of Captain George Vancouver. Univ. plant-hunters and the plants they found changed Washington Press. Seattle. 274 pp. the course of history. McGraw-Hill Book Co. New York, NY. 288 pp. Badger, G. 1996. The explorers of the Pacific. Kangaroo Press. Kenthurst, Australia. 256 pp. Douglas, D. 1914. Journal kept by David Douglas during his travels in North America, 1823-1827.... Beaglehole, J. C. 1966. The exploration of the Reprinted 1959. Antiquarian Press. New York, NY. Pacific. Third edition. Stanford Univ. Press. Stanford, 364 pp. CA. 346 pp. Evans, H. E. 1997. The natural history of the Long Bellwood, P. 1979. Man's conquest of the Pacific: Expedition to the Rocky Mountains. Oxford Univ. -1- Press. New York, NY. 268 pp. Hepper, F. N. (editor). 1989. Plant hunting for Kew. Royal Bot. Gard., Kew. Her Majesty's Stationary Ewan, J. 1976. The Columbian discoveries and the Office. London, England. 222 pp. growth of botanical ideas with special reference to the sixteenth century. In, Chiapelli, F. First images Hernandez, F. 1651. Nova plantarum, animalium et of America. Univ. California Press. Berkeley. Pp. mineralium Mexicanorum historia. B. Deuersini et Z. 807-812. Masotti. Rome, Italy. Ewan, J. 1991. Who conquered the New World? Or Knapp, S. 2003. Plant discoveries: a botanist’s four centuries of exploration in an indehiscent voyage through plant exploration. Firefly Books. capsule. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 78(1): 57-64. Buffalo, NY. 336 pp. Eyde, R. H. 1985. Expedition botany: the making of Lemmon, K. 1968. The golden age of plant hunters. a new profession. In, Viola, H. J. & C. Margolis. Pp. A. S. Barnes. Cranbury, NJ. 229 pp. 25-41. Lindsay, A. 2008. Seeds of blood and beauty: Flanagan, M. & T. Kirkham. 2005. Plants from the Scottish plant explorers. Birlinn. Edinburgh. 321 pp. edge of the world: new explorations in the Far East. Timber Press. Portland, OR. 312 pp. Lyte, C. 1983. The plant hunters. Orbis. London, U. K. 191 pp. Fry, C. 2013. The plant hunters: the adventures of the world’s greatest botanical explorers. Univ. Maslow, J. 1996. Footsteps in the jungle: Chicago Press. Chicago, IL. 63 pp. adventures in the scientific exploration of the American tropics. Ivan Dee. Chicago, IL. 308 pp. Gascoigne, J. 1994. Joseph Banks and the English enlightenment: useful knowledge and polite culture. McCracken, D. P. 1997. Gardens of empire: Cambridge Univ. Press. Cambridge, England. 324 botanical institutions of the Victorian British empire. pp. Leicester Univ. Press. London, U. K. 242 pp. Gollner, A. L. 2008. The fruit hunters: a story of McKelvey, S. D. 1955. Botanical exploration of the nature, adventure, commerce and obsession. trans-Mississippi West, 1790-1850. Arnold Scribner. New York, NY. 279 pp. Arboretum. Jamaica Plains, NY. 1144 pp. Goodspeed, T. H. 1961. Plant hunters in the Andes. Miller, D. P. & P. H. Reill (editors). 1996. Visions of Univ. California Press. Berkeley. 378 pp. empire: voyages, botany, and representations of nature. Cambridge Univ. Press. Cambridge, England. Gray, W. R. 1981. Voyages to paradise: exploring in 370 pp. the wake of Captain Cook. Natl. Geogr. Soc. Washington, D. C. 215 pp. Moorehead, A. 1966. The fatal impact: the invasion of the South Pacific, 1767-1840. Harper & Row. New Gribbin, J. & M. Gribbin. 2008. Flower hunters. York, NY. 252 pp. Oxford Univ. Press. Oxford, U. K. 332 pp. Moring, J. 2002. Early American naturalists: Hagen, V. W. von. 1948. South America, the green exploring the American West, 1804 - 1900. Cooper world of the naturalists: five centuries of natural Square Press. New York, NY. 241 pp. history in South America. Eyre & Spottiswoode. London, England. 396 pp. Musgrave, T., C. Gardner, & W. Musgrave. 1998. The plant hunters: two hundred years of adventure Hagen, V. W. von. 1955. South America called and discovery around the world. Ward Lock. them: explorations of the great naturalists: La London, England. 224 pp. Condamine, Humboldt, Darwin, Spruce. Third edition. Little Brown. Boston, MA. 311 pp. Nordhoff, C. & J. N. Hall. 1962. The Bounty trilogy. Little, Brown and Co. Boston, MA. 633 pp. Healey, B. 1975. The plant hunters. Scribner. New York, NY. 214 pp. Oliver, D. (editor). 1988. Return to Tahiti: Bligh’s second breadfruit voyage. Univ. Hawaii Press. -2- Honolulu. 281 pp. Pennington, P. 1979. The great explorers. Facts On II: THE PEOPLE File. New York, NY. 336 pp. Raby, P. 1997. Bright paradise: Victorian scientific travellers. Princeton Univ. Press. Princeton, NJ. 276 SIR JOSEPH BANKS pp. (1744 – 1820) Reid, M. 2009. The plant hunters: adventures Banks, J. 1896. Journal of the Right Hon. Sir Joseph among the Himalaya Mountains. Third edition. Dodo Banks... during Captain Cook's first voyage in H. M. Press. 292 pp. 000 S. Endeavour in 1768-71.... Edited by Sir Joseph D. Hooker. Macmillan & Co. London, England. 466 pp. Renner, S. 1993. A history of botanical exploration in Amazonian Ecuador, 1739-1988. Smithsonian Banks, R. E. R. et al. (editors). 1994. Sir Joseph Contr. to Botany No. 82. 39 pp. Banks: a global perspective. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 235 pp. Reveal, J. L. 1992. Gentle conquest: the botanical discovery of North America, with illustrations from Beaglehole, J. C. 1962. The Endeavour journal of the Library of Congress. Starwood Publ. Co. Joseph Banks, 1768-1771. Two vols. Public Library Washington, D. C. 160 pp. New South Wales and Angus & Robertson. Sauer, J. D. 1976. Changing perception and Cameron, H. C. 1952. Sir Joseph Banks... the exploitation of New World plants in Europe, 1492- autocrat of the philosophers. Angus & Robertson. 1800. In, Chiapelli, F. (editor). First images of Sydney, Australia. 341 pp. America. Univ. California Press. Berkeley. Pp. 813- 832. Francis, J. 1972. Sir Joseph Banks, architect of science and empire. Proc. Royal Soc. Queensland Short, P. S. 2004. In pursuit of plants: experiences 83: 1-19. of nineteenth & early twentieth century plant collectors. Timber Press. Portland, OR. 351 pp. Lamb, C. 1991. Knight to empress. The Garden 116(2): 71-75. Stearn, W. T. 1958. Botanical exploration to the time of Linnaeus. Proc. Linnean Soc. London 169: O'Brian, P. 1993. Joseph Banks: a life. Godine. 173-196. Boston, MA. 430 pp. Wallace, A. R. 1889. Travels on the Amazon and Rio Smith, E. 1911. The life of Sir Joseph Banks, Negro, with an account of the native tribes, and President of the Royal Society, with some notices of observations on the climate, geology, and natural his friends and contemporaries. William Brendon. history of the Amazon Valley. Ward, Lock, & Co. Plymouth, England. 348 pp. New York, NY. 363 pp. Watkins, T. H. 1996. The greening of the empire: Sir Ward, F. K. 1940. Plant hunting through the Joseph Banks. Natl. Geogr. 190(5): 28-53. centuries. Nature 145: 574-576. Whittle, T. 1970. The plant hunters: being an LIEUTENANT WILLIAM BLIGH examination of collecting with an account of the (1754 – 1817) careers and the methods of a number of those who have searched the world for wild plants.