What's the Name of That Book??? discussion

This adult non-fiction book is an older book, I saw it at my ex’s Aunt’s house in 2005. I don’t remember if it was really an old, old book, or just titled and designed to look old - the cover contained hand-drawn images of flowers with their pertinent genus description. It was about the European botanists to first explore the flora in the early United States; many who risked their lives and died due to poisoning, exposure to the elements, getting lost, captured or killed by American Indians, or wounded or killed by wild animals, the ones who survived helped the settlers survive by learning what was edible and what was not, and learning how to garden this new, foreign land.

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Anyone? Anyone?

If you haven't already, you might want to look through some of the lists with the botany tag.

Sheri, Is this book for adults or teens?

I added some details to the header/ topic title. Feel free to edit it.

Have you tried Worldcat.org? For example:

Search using WorldCat.org:
https://www.worldcat.org/advancedsear...
Subject: botany botanists united states | 1900-2007 ? | Non-Fiction | Book | English

(Note: Sometimes the website glitches and defaults to a non-English language. Try right-clicking a blank area on the webpage and selecting Translate to English (or similar) from the browser's menu.)

One example is Tall Trees And Far Horizons;Adventures And Discoveries Of Early Botanists In America. by Virginia S. Eifert.

Some titles that turned up using a "tagmash" on LibraryThing.com (18th+century,USA,botany,history,non-fiction). There are multiple cover images.

- Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida by William Bartram?
- The Natures of John and William Bartram: Two Pioneering Naturalists, Father and Son, in the Wilderness of Eighteenth-Cen tury America by Thomas P. Slaughter?
- American Curiosity: Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British Atlantic World by Susan Scott Parrish?

Kris wrote: "Sheri, Is this book for adults or teens?

I added some details to the header/ topic title. Feel free to edit it."

It was an adult book. I tried to add that to my title, but it wouldn't save the change.

Kris wrote: "Have you tried Worldcat.org? For example:

Search using WorldCat.org:
https://www.worldcat.org/advancedsear...
Subject: botany botanists united states | 1900-2007 ? | Non-Fiction | Book | E..."

Thank you for searching, but unfortunately, that is not the book.

Kris wrote: "Some titles that turned up using a "tagmash" on LibraryThing.com (18th+century,USA,botany,history,non-fiction). There are multiple cover images.

- [book:Travels through North and South Carolina, G..."

Thank you so much for the suggestions, but it's not any of those three books.

Rainbowheart wrote: "If you haven't already, you might want to look through some of the lists with the botany tag."

Thanks, I'll take a look!

Was this about one specific botanist, or several separate people? Could it possibly have been about William Bartram?

Memp wrote: "Was this about one specific botanist, or several separate people? Could it possibly have been about William Bartram?"

That, I don't remember. I only perused the book, I was there for a visit, so I didn't get to really read it. I will google "William Bartram", though, thank you!

Quaker Plant Hunters: From North America's Early Frontier to the South Pacific?