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'Skilfully compiled and edited, complete with [...] original news coverage, this attractive and well-produced book will open up historic new horizons...'- Veld and Flora (South African Botanical Society) '[Mary Pocock] scribbled her travel diary in old school notebooks [...] and produced a vivid record of a journey across the subcontinent. Pocock collected original herbarium specimens and produced sketches and watercolours of plants, some of them new to science. All of these help bring this daring botanical expedition to life in a fascinating and lively read'. - Reviewers Comments

'Skilfully compiled and edited, complete with [...] original news coverage, this attractive and well-produced book will open up historic new horizons...'- Veld and Flora (South African Botanical Society) '[Mary Pocock] scribbled her travel diary in old school notebooks [...] and produced a vivid record of a journey across the subcontinent. Pocock collected original herbarium specimens and produced sketches and watercolours of plants, some of them new to science. All of these help bring this daring botanical expedition to life in a fascinating and lively read'. - Reviewers Comments

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Tony Dold is a botanist and curator of the Selmar Schonland Herbarium where Pocock's Angolan archive is housed. Jean Kelly, a former teacher, now living in Makhanda in retirement, voluntarily assists with curatorial work in the Selmar Schonland Herbarium.

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