Faustino Miranda: una vida dedicada a la botanica. 2007. illus. 419 p. gr8vo. Hardcover.- In Spanish.

Faustino Miranda (Gijón, 1905-Mexico, 1964) must be considered one of the most prominent botanists of the 20th century. However, he remains largely unknown today, even to many of the specialists who regularly consult his work. This can only be explained by recalling his status as a Republican exile. It seems as if his life had been left in no man's land, split between two worlds, impossible to explain exclusively from Spain or Mexico. For Spanish researchers, Miranda is just another member of the dazzling constellation of exiled intellectuals who had received a careful education and whose professional careers were cut short by the civil war and Franco's regime. For Mexican scholars, he is a botanist with an enigmatic past who arrived in the country in 1939 and, in little more than two decades, would chart the course of botanical studies to the present day. A primary objective of this book has been to offer a comprehensive biography of our author, one that manages to overcome this duality in his life, as they are nothing more than different facets of our character: together they shape his life and professional career.