THE SMALLEST KINGDOM, plants and plant collectors at the Cape of Good Hope.

221 pp., 4to., maps, b/w & colour illus., hardback, d.w., Kew, 2012

An illustrated account of the botanical exploration of South Africa's Cape Floral Kingdom.
"'The Smallest Kingdom' is our celebration of Cape plants and the people who discovered and developed them into today's horticultural gems." from the introduction
In addition to Liz Fraser's botanical illustrations, the book includes plant drawings and paintings from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, historical maps, portraits of the collectors and herbarium specimens.

Botanical and wildlife artist Liz Fraser has been painting the flora and fauna of the Cape since 1984. Mike Fraser worked at the Percy Fitzpatrick Institute of African Ornithology, University of Cape Town, and is now a conservation officer with the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB). They lived in Cape Town for twelve years and were awarded the Marloth Medal of the Botanical Society of South Africa for promoting the conservation of the region's flora through their books, "A Fynbos Year" and "Between Two Shores". They now live in the Scottish Borders.