NARGS Book of the Month

A Plant-Hunter in Afghanistan, The Story of an Expedition by Christopher Grey-Wilson. Redgrave, Suffolk: The Charlotte-Louise Press, 2019. 272 pp.

Would you believe me if I said that two British scientists from Kew were in Afghanistan and southern Iran for seven months, wandering freely in their Land Rover and chatting with villagers, nomadic shepherds and border guards?  Yes, Christopher Grey-Wilson and Tom...