THE BOOK OF PALMS (EN

This encyclopedic treasury of 240 exquisite chromolithographic illustrations was based on Martiuss expeditions through Brazil and P eru. From 1817 to 1820, he traveled over 2,250 km (1,400 miles) through the Amazon basin to investigate natural history and native tribes with zoologist Johann Baptist von Spix.The result was an unrivaled catalog of all known genera of the palm family, outlining the modern classification of palms, describing all the palms of Brazil, and producing the first maps of palm biogeography. Martiussfolio is unusu...[Leer más]