Rumphius' Kruidboek. Verhalen uit de Ambonense flora. 2020. illus. (col.). 256 p. Paper bd.- In Dutch.

In Rumphius' Kruidboek, Norbert Peeters tells fifteen stories about the Ambonese flora, supplemented with a historical, philosophical and ethnographic context, and richly illustrated with original source material. Read the special stories behind botanical familiarities such as cloves and nutmeg, and get to know curiosities such as the 'sensitive herb' that drives philosophers crazy and the 'Maldivian cocus-nut' that grows on the nesting tree of the mythical Garuda. Travel with Rumphius as your guide through sea-grass beds of grazing manatees, through the barren stilt-woods of mangroves, through gardens of coconut palms, bananas and kenari trees, past clambering creepers and rattan lianas in the interior mountain forests, to the drenching beard moss on the mountain peaks of Ambon.