Table of Contents

Introduction
Complexities of discovery
Physicians and apothecarians
Levant lunatics
Expeditions
Linnaean revolutions
Sibthorp - the early years
Bauer - the early years
Hawkins - the early years
Sibthorp - the first journey
Hawkins's first journey
Sibthorp - the years between
Bauer's work for Sibthorp and Hawkins
Hawkins - the years between
Hawkins's second journey
Sibthorp's second journey
Sibthorp - the final months
The collections, drawings and notes
Hawkins - home the sailor
The publication of the results
Epilogue
References
Appendices

Reviews

`Walter Lack's biography of Flora Graeca and the preceding Prodromus is a masterpiece of meticulous scholarship, expertly compiled and superbly written.'
Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 1999
`...books as this one are essential, that more of their kind are needed because they are vital for our proper understanding of the ways in which our knowledge of the world around us, and of those parts of the world that are far from home, came about.'
OPTIMA Newsletter, No. 34, July 1999
`...an exquisitely illustrated wonder-book of legendary beauty and rarity.'
Financial Times, 4th September 1999
`A much-needed and magnificent history of John Sibthorp (1758-96) and his ten-volume "Flora Graeca" (1806-40) and especially of his extensive exploratory journeys with John Hawkins.'
Rudolf Schmid, Taxon
`Walter Lack's biography of "Flora Graeca"... is a masterpiece of meticulous scholarship, expertly compiled and superbly written.... I cannot praise Professor Lack's achievement too highly.
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E. Charles Nelson, Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society
`The "Flora Graeca Story" is a remarkable tale of drama and conflict, but above all of perseverance, excellence, and dedication.... A well-structured, eminently readable, and beautifully illustrated book - an altogether admirable achievement.
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Arne Strid, Nordic Journal of Botany
`Bauer's plates are the best part of it...'
Blumea