{"product_id":"the-plant-hunters-adventures-mayne-reid-9781835523230","title":"The Plant Hunters - Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginally published in 1858 at the height of the passion for exotic specimens, this is the story of a young Bavarian botanist, Karl Linden, engaged in a plant-hunting expedition to the stupendous mountains of the Himalayas in Tibet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is a vivid early narrative and primary souce, with commentaries on the Himalayas, plant hunting, inspecting cliffs, the Ibex \u0026amp; other fauna, ascent of mountains, aerostatics, and of course the botany and value of the plants they are collecting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMayne Reid, a pre-eminent and popular writer, was primarily a novelist (1818-1883) who wrote adventure stories from just before the Civil War until his death in 1883. Reid's career included two periods in the U. S: 1840-49 and 1867-70.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe had emigrated to the United States in his early twenties, reaching New Orleans in January, 1840, where he pursued a varied career as a shopkeeper, overseer of slaves, schoolmaster, and actor, with occasional forays into hunting and Indian warfare.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReid returned to England in 1849, and embarked upon a successful career as a writer of adventure novels and books for boys He was a close friend of Poe (though their writings were miles apart), played a gallant role in the Mexican War, worked as a journalist and wrote most of his first novel while in the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe was an influence on the young mind of Teddy Roosevelt, as Roosevelt reveals in his Autobiography; while Arthur Conan Doyle wrote in his 1890s essay \"Juvenilia\" that when young he always kept \"Mr. Ballantyne or Captain Mayne Reid at my elbow\"; Robert Louis Stevenson praised Reid in the Vailima Letters, and J. Frank Dobie has said he, \"dared convey real information in his romances.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mayne Reid\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1835523234\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781835523230\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Atlas Vista Publisher\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/22\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 186\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.98lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.40d","brand":"Mayne Reid","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48519495123199,"sku":"9781835523230","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ca4c1894-a825-4842-8cc5-622ed977dbb5.jpg?v=1778737618","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-plant-hunters-adventures-mayne-reid-9781835523230","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}