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Karl Linden, a young Bavarian botanist exiled after 1848, goes plant-hunting in the Himalaya with his brother Caspar and the Indian hunter Ossaroo, after the rhododendrons and magnolias the nurserymen of Europe were paying for, and meets tigers, man-eaters and the Himalayan snows on the way. Mayne Reid wrote adventure for boys from a life spent partly in the American west and partly making it up. Forty plates by Edward Lear and Marianne North follow the botanist's trail from Sicilian peaks to Jamaican palms, matching the book's far-flung hunt for rare plants.
Karl Linden, a young Bavarian botanist exiled after 1848, goes plant-hunting in the Himalaya with his brother Caspar and the Indian hunter Ossaroo, after the rhododendrons and magnolias the nurserymen of Europe were paying for, and meets tigers, man-eaters and the Himalayan snows on the way. Mayn...
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Mayne Reid (1818-1883) was an Irish-American novelist born in County Down. He fought in the Mexican-American war, was badly wounded at Chapultepec, and wrote some seventy adventure novels read across Europe; Nabokov and Chekhov both recorded devouring him as boys. His works include The Rifle Rangers, The Scalp Hunters, The Plant Hunters, and The Headless Horseman.
Mayne Reid (1818-1883) was an Irish-American novelist born in County Down. He fought in the Mexican-American war, was badly wounded at Chapultepec, and wrote some seventy adventure novels read across Europe; Nabokov and Chekhov both recorded devouring him as boys. His works include The Rifle Rang...
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