by Mayne Reid · FisicalBook · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423915392
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«Los cazadores de plantas» is the adventure novel by Mayne Reid, published by Espasa-Calpe in paperback (214 pages, in Spanish).
Karl Linden, a young Bavarian botanist, undertakes a plant-collecting expedition to the Tibetan Himalayas. The narrative combines climbs, cliff inspections and encounters with local fauna, such as the ibex, with observations on botany and the value of the specimens obtained.
1973 edition in the Austral Collection (extra volume, no. 1539). Originally published in 1858 as «The Plant Hunters: Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains», it is the first instalment of the «The Plant Hunters» series.
For readers of classic adventure novels and tales of exploration, natural history and nineteenth-century botany.
Thomas Mayne Reid was an Irish British novelist who fought in the Mexican–American War (1846–1848). His many works on American life describe colonial policy in the American colonies, the horrors of slave labour, and the lives of American Indians. "Captain" Reid wrote adventure novels akin to those by Frederick Marryat (1792–1848), and Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894). They were set mainly in the American West, Mexico, South Africa, the Himalayas, and Jamaica. He was an admirer of Lord Byron. His novel Quadroon (1856), an anti-slavery work, was later adapted as a play entitled The Octoroon (1859) by Dion Boucicault and produced in New York.
