Green Laurels - The Lives And Achievements Of The Great Naturalists - Paperback

Originally published in the early 1900s. The illustrated contents include: Schoolmen and Herbalists - The Wonderful World of the Microscope - Science at Court: Buffon and Reaumur - Linnaeus and His Life Work - The Great Field Trips - Lamarck - Georges Cuvier - Bartram and Michaux - Wilderness Birdsmen; Wilson and Audubon - Frontier Utopians - Goethe and the Romanticists - Darwin and Wallace - Darwinism and the Man Behind It - Fabre and the World of Insects etc. Many of the earliest natural history books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Home Farm Books are republishing many of these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.