Shirley : the life of a botanical adventurer
Sherwood, Shirley2024
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Here is the remarkable story of Dr Shirley Sherwood, scientist, author, travel writer, gardener as well as mother and grandmother. Following the tragic death of her brilliant scientist husband, Michael Cross, in a freak air crash in 1964, she was left as a 30-year-old widow with two young boys aged four and three. For the next twelve years she worked as a key member of the Nobel Prize-winning team which developed Tagamet, the first block-buster drug (sales of over $1 billion a year). After her marriage to Jim Sherwood in 1977, she left science to concentrate full-time on the huge task of restoring the fabled Orient-Express train, probably the most luxurious and exotic form of travel ever devised.
Main title:
Shirley : the life of a botanical adventurer / Shirley Sherwood.
Author:
Sherwood, Shirley, author
Imprint:
London : Unicorn, 2024.
Collation:
256 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781911397892 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
580.92
Language:
English
Subject:
Sherwood, ShirleyWomen botanists -- Great Britain -- BiographyBotanists -- Great Britain -- BiographyWomen philanthropists -- Great Britain -- BiographyPhilanthropists -- Great Britain -- BiographyWomen art collectors -- Great Britain -- BiographyArt -- Collectors and collecting -- Great Britain -- BiographyBiography
BRN:
2443637
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