Basak GardnerBasak Gardner is the author (with Chris Gardner) of the acclaimed Flora of the Silk Road (I.B.Tauris, 2014) and Flora of the Mediterranean (Bloomsbury Wildlife, 2019) . A professional botanist with extensive experience in identifing and photographing flowers, she has led specialist botanical and wildlife tours worldwide for nearly two decades (www.viranaturatours.com), and was head of the herbarium at Nezahat Gokyigit Botanic Garden in Istanbul. Read More Read Less