Books by Author Chris Thorogood

Chris Thorogood, 2024

My ambition here is to portray plants differently; to capture their intrigue. My hope is that it will inspire people with a subject that has always fascinated me. Pathless Forest is the story of my adventures in pursuit of the world’s largest flowers that lurk in the wildest reaches of Southeast Asia. It is also a story of plants in peril – and together with my colleagues in Indonesia and the Philippines – our efforts to save them from extinction. This is the story of a flower, a forester, and a botanist, and how our lives intertwined.

Chris Thorogood, 2022

Science and art are both lenses through which I make sense of the natural world, even if they seem very different. I’m a botanist, first and foremost, and I’ve always been fascinated by how things work, as I mentioned above. But painting helps me make sense of a plant - to deconstruct something, to put it back together, to see it at the finest possible level of detail. To me, botany and art go hand in hand: art complements science. This book describes my forays into the plant world, and how I conjured them to life by brush.

Chris Thorogood, 2018

Weird Plants takes you on an adventure into a world in which plants trick, steal and kidnap – plants you could scarcely imagine even exist, from carnivores that drug insects to orchids that bamboozle sex-crazed bees. It’s not a narrative book, but presents a series of illustrated ‘plant portraits’ – each explaining the subject’s intrigue.