Anita Ganeri is an award-winning author of children's information books. She has been a writer for 20 years, after working in-house for Usborne Publishing and Walker Books. She specialises in the natural world, religion and mythology but is always looking for new challenges. Among her many titles are the best-selling 'Horrible Geography' series for Scholastic Children's Books which won the Blue Peter Book Award for the Best Book with Facts in 2009 and the Tivy Education Medal from the Royal Scottish Geographical Society for an outstanding contribution to geographical education. Anita lives in northern England with her husband, children, dogs and cat. She enjoys reading, walking the Moors, playing tennis and dreaming of winning Wimbledon.
4: On the edge
6: Attenborough's pitcher plant
8: Big-leafed mahogany
10: Café marron
12: Dragon's blood tree
13: Gold ball cactus
14: Grandidier's baobab
16: Jade vine
17: Jellyfish tree
18: Monkey puzzle tree
20: Pgymy waterlily
21: Quiver tree
22: Rafflesia
24: Sinai primrose
25: Snowdonia hawkweed
26: Titan arum
28: Welwitschia
29: Western underground orchid
30: Glossary
31: Map & further information
32: Index
