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Travels and adventures of an orchid hunter
Albert Millican
Published
1891
by Cassell & Company in London
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Written in English
Edition Notes
| Statement | by Albert Millican.... |
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| Open Library | OL22499876M |
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Like Two Owls at Eton and My Family and Other Animals, The Orchid Hunter is a charming account of a precocious adolescent’s obsession with the natural world. Leif’s enthusiasm for his quest is infectious, as is the quiet conviction with which he keeps at it, showing how /5(53). Twelve Portraits of the Dracula Orchid A Photoessay By Jorge Mario Múnera orchid specialist, killed on the Timbiquí River; Albert Millican, collector, painter, photographer and author of the book Travels and Adventures of an Orchids Hunter, whose bones rest since in the Victoria, Caldas, cemetery after a fierce knifing; and the famed.
An Account of Canoe and Camp Life in Colombia, while Collecting Orchids in the Northern Andes. London, Cassell & Company Limited, first edition, Original pictorial gilt blue cloth, gilt title lettering on spine and cover with gilt flowers. 5 He cultivated orchids at Arddarroch, and sponsored the orchid collector Albert Millican, who dedicated his book Travels and Adventures of an Orchid Hunter to his patron, 'whose wealth and love of orchids have encouraged and supported the author in his journeys, and whose kindness has rendered the present publication possible'.
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An account of canoe and camp life in Colombia, while collecting orchids in the northern Andes by Millican, Albert. Publication date Topics Orchids -- Colombia, Colombia -- Description and travel Publisher London, Paris, Melbourne, Cassell & company, limitedPages: Travels and adventures of an orchid hunter.
An account of canoe and camp life in Colombia, while collecting orchids in the northern Andes. Travels and adventures of an orchid hunter. An account of canoe and camp life in Colombia, while collecting orchids in the northern Andes by Millican, Albert.
TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES OF AN ORCHID HUNTER by Albert Millican with comments by Brian Milligan No, he’s not an ancestor of mine, despite the similarity in our surnames. Albert Millican spent several years collecting orchids in Colombia during the s and wrote a book of the above title describing his exploits in Modern orchid hunting is not without its dangers.
Tom Hart Dyke, a plant hunter who follows the tradition of the Victorian and Edwardian orchid hunters, was held in by kidnappers thought to be FARC guerillas in the Darien Gap between Panama and Colombia, while hunting for rare orchids, a plant for which he has a particular passion.
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Travels and Adventures of an Orchid Hunter: An Account of Canoe and Camp Life in Colombia, While Collecting Orchids in the Northern AndesThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know : Albert Millican.In the summer after leaving school, a young botanist sets out to fulfil a childhood dream – to find every species of orchid native to the British Isles.
Battling the vagaries of the British climate in his clapped-out car, Leif Bersweden has just a few months to do what no one has ever done before: to complete this quest within one growing.Lance Birk's adventures collecting Orchids in jungles from around the world are recounted in his newest book, THE LAST ORCHID HUNTER.
Personal accounts of his exploits on his numerous expeditions during the second half of the 20th Century are described in lucid details.
