Botanical gardens of Brazil

"The first complete, richly illustrated book on the subject, ... is the result of four years of research by ecologist Evaristo Eduardo de Miranda and offers the reader a unique opportunity of becoming familiar with today's 34 Brazilian botanical gardens. Aside from texts covering each garden's history and spheres of action, the book gathers nearly 300 images, a great many unpublished and clicked by nature photographer Fabio Colombini."--P.4 of cover.