A botanist who has spent decades battling to preserve one of the North’s most special landscapes is about to become one of the oldest first-time published authors – at the age of 97.
Dr Margaret Bradshaw has worked ceaselessly to raise awareness of the range of rare plants found in Teesdale in County Durham. Her efforts included, at the age of 95, an 88km fund-raising trek on horseback to raise thousands of pounds to finance surveys of the plants and their locations.
Now her book Teesdale’s Special Flora: Places, Plants and People, will be released on February 28 by Princeton University Press.
