botanists

Presents the adventures of Botanist Mendoza as she attempts to thwart "The Company's" promises to render humans immortal in this twenty-fourth-century adventure.

Discusses the life and work of botanist Alice Eastwood, who explored plant life in Colorado and California in the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth centuries.

The author describes how she decided to become a botanist, what education she needed, and what work opportunities are available in the field of botany. Includes plant science lessons.

Briefly explains the work of botanists, scientists who study different kinds of plants and how they work.

The cast and crew of a television reality show answer a distress signal from Henders Island, a newly discovered fragment of a lost continent, only to have their contingent ravaged by lifeforms never before seen on Earth, and when a group of scientists is dispatched to the island to investigate, they find arthropods that could spell disaster for the rest of the world.

Young Billy Bartram keeps a journal of his experiences learning about the plants of the colonial United States from his father, John Bartram, as they travel together gathering specimens and planting seeds.

Presents a short biography of Mexican-American botanist and adventurer Ynes Mexia, and chronicles her childhood, education, and later work as an environmentalist.

Tells about botanists, what they do, the places they work, and why their work is important.

Recounts the experiences of Jeanne Baret as she became the first woman to circumnavigate the globe while working on Louis Antoine de Bougainville's ships in the mid-eighteenth century.