New Encyclopedia of Herbs & Their Uses

Deni Bown has been a gardener and botanist all her life, starting with a childhood fascination with her grandfather's lilies and tulips and a passion for finding and identifying wildflowers. After a varied career in horticulture, Deni Bown became a freelance botanical and horticultural writer and photographer and was a winner in the BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition in 1986. Her first book, Aroids -- Plants of the Arum Family, is a standard work on that family, and she won a Garden Writers' Association of America Award in 1990 for Alba -- The Book of White Flowers. Deni Bown lectures widely and has made television and radio broadcasts about her work. Renowned as a lone traveler, she has trekked into remote parts of the world in search of unusual plants.Bown, Deni is the author of 'New Encyclopedia of Herbs & Their Uses', published 2001 under ISBN 9780789480316 and ISBN 078948031X.