Islands of the Great East: Collecting Seeds from the Philippines and Netherlands India in the Junk 'Chêng ho (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1943) The World Grows Round My Door; The Story of The Kampong, a Home on The Edge of the Tropics (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1947) Exploring for Plants. (New York: Macmillan, 1930) The World Was My Garden won a National Book Award as the Bookseller Discovery of 1938, voted by members of the American Booksellers Association. The discovery was "the most deserving book which failed to receive adequate sales and recognition." In addition Fairchild and his wife Marian wrote an early book on macro photography of insects titled Book of Monsters (Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 1914). Fairchild also wrote numerous monographs about plants, plant exploring, and the transportation and cultivation of new plants in the United States. See also The Kampong, the home and personal introduction garden of David Grandison Fairchild References Notes Bibliography Barbour, Thomas. Naturalist at Large. Boston: Little, Brown, 1943. Fairchild, David. The World Was My Garden. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938. Poole, Robert M. Explorers House. New York: Penguin Press, 2004. Tebeau, Charlton W. The University of Miami. Coral Gables: University of Miami Press, 1976. Williams, Beryl and Epstein, Samuel. Plant Explorer. New York: Julian Messner, 1963. Other references Harris, Amanda. The Fruits of Eden: David Fairchild and America's Plant Hunters. Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press, 2015. ISBN 978-0-8130-6061-3. Douglas, Marjory Stoneman. Adventures in a Green World: the Story of David Fairchild and Barbour Lathrop, Coconut Grove, Florida: Field Research Projects, 1973. "Fairchild, David (Grandison)", Current Biography, 1953: 190-193. "Fairchild, David (Grandison)" (obituary), Current Biography, 1954: 266. "Fairchild, David Grandison." American National Biography (1999). 7:680-681. "Fairchild, David Grandison." National Cyclopaedia of American Biography (1930). C:253-254 Stone, Daniel. The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats. New York City: Dutton, 2018. . OCLC 988851760. External links Complete bibliography David Grandison Fairchild and The Kampong 1869 births 1954 deaths Alexander Graham Bell Kansas State University alumni American botanical writers American male non-fiction writers American botanists Botanists with author abbreviations David People from Manhattan, Kansas University of Miami people Writers from Florida National Book Award winners Scientists from Kansas