Gregorio Dauphin López restores in this work the place that corresponds to Adolphe Tonduz in the golden age of botany in Costa Rica and shows us the magnificent legacy that Tonduz, inmersed in the Neotropics, inherited to universal science for the enjoyment of the following generations of botanical scholars and the interested general public.
The book is rich in illustrations and details, comprises the agronomic writings of Tonduz showing the inspiration of a man and his love for science over the limitations and inclemencies of the environment, the book takes us back to the past, better deciphering the present, restoring scientific credit to whom it rightfully belongs to.