Ogrod botaniczny

This guide to Kraków's botanical garden, founded in 1783 on the grounds of a former Jesuit palace, opens with a Belgian plant-hunting expedition to Guatemala in 1844 that yellow fever nearly wiped out, leaving a young Polish gardener named Józef Warszewicz among the few survivors. You'll hear why he kept traveling through Central and South America for years afterward rather than heading home, climbing volcanoes and chasing orchids through repeated bouts of fever. The guide follows the tens of thousands of specimens he shipped back across the ocean, and the plants that still carry his name.