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The Plant Hunters: Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains
The book explores the and challenging lives of botanical collectors, referred to as "plant-hunters," who dedicate their lives to the discovery and collection of rare plants from remote locations.
"The Plant Hunters: Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains" by Captain Mayne Reid is a novel. The book explores the and challenging lives of botanical collectors, referred to as "plant-hunters," who dedicate their lives to the discovery and collection of rare plants from remote locations.
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“We have heard of fox-hunters, of deer-hunters, of bear and buffalo-hunters, of lion-hunters, and of ‘boy-hunters;’ of a plant-hunter never.
“Stay! Truffles are plants. Dogs are used in finding them; and the collector of these is termed a truffle-hunter. Perhaps this is what the Captain means?”
Contents
- 01The Plant-Hunter.
- 02Chapter Two.
- 03Karl Linden.
- 04Chapter Three.
- 05Caspar, Ossaroo, and Fritz.
- 06Chapter Four.
- 07Is it Blood?
- 08Chapter Five.
- 09The Fishing-Birds.
- 10Chapter Six.
- 11The Teräi.
- 12Chapter Seven.
- 13Tapping the Palmyra.
- 14Chapter Eight.
- 15The Sambur Stag.
- 16Chapter Nine.
- 17A Night Marauder.
- 18Chapter Ten.
- 19A Talk about Tigers.
- 20Chapter Eleven.
- 21A Tiger taken by Birdlime.
- 22Chapter Twelve.
- 23A Rare Raft.
- 24Chapter Thirteen.
- 25The tallest Grass in the World.
- 26Chapter Fourteen.
- 27The Man-Eaters.
- 28Chapter Fifteen.
- 29The Death of the Man-Eater.
- 30Chapter Sixteen.
- 31Karl’s Adventure with the Long-Lipped Bear.
- 32Chapter Seventeen.
- 33Ossaroo in Trouble.
- 34Chapter Eighteen.
- 35The Axis and Panther.
- 36Chapter Nineteen.
- 37The Pests of the Tropics.
- 38Chapter Twenty.
- 39The Musk-Deer.
- 40Chapter Twenty One.
- 41The Glacier.
- 42Chapter Twenty Two.
- 43The Glacier Slide.
- 44Chapter Twenty Three.
- 45The Pass.
- 46Chapter Twenty Four.
- 47The Lone Mountain Valley.
- 48Chapter Twenty Five.
- 49Grunting Oxen.
- 50Chapter Twenty Six.
- 51The Yaks.
- 52Chapter Twenty Seven.
- 53Curing the Yak-Meat.
- 54Chapter Twenty Eight.
- 55The Boiling Spring.
- 56Chapter Twenty Nine.
- 57An Alarming Discovery.
- 58Chapter Thirty.
- 59Prospects and Precautions.
- 60Chapter Thirty One.
About this edition
- Author
- Mayne Reid
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Intermediate: some philosophy helps
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 313 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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