James Gordon Cheers (born 1954) owned a wholesale

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nursery in southeast

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. He went on to publish ''Carnivorous Plants'' (1983) and ''A Guide to Carnivorous Plants of the World'' (1993). This was followed by ''Killer Plants and How to Grow Them'' (1997) for

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as a Picture Puffin. The Picture Puffin book won the Children's Book of the Year Award: Eve Pownall Award for Information Books in Australia in 1997. Gordon worked for

and

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and was the publishing director of children's and adult illustrated books, publishing ''Australia Through Time'', ''Botanica'', and many others. In August 1999, Gordon Cheers and Margaret Olds set up Global Book Publishing. Their first two titles, ''Anatomica'' and ''The Global Encyclopedia of Wine'',Various Authors (2004) "The Encyclopaedic Atlas of Wine" Global Book Publishing, Australia appeared in 2000. ''Anatomica'', with 912 pages, is likely the most comprehensive, illustrated body atlas since ''

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''. ''Wine'' extensively covers the world’s wine regions. In 2003, Gordon published, amongst others, ''Flora'' (1584 pages), which covers 20,000 plants and includes 12,000 colour images. It is the largest illustrated single volume plant encyclopedia ever published. In 2005, with Margaret Olds, he established Millennium House to publish illustrated non-fiction books for both the Australian and the international market. Their titles include ''Astronomica'', ''Historica'', ''Geologica'', ''Natural Health'', ''Earth Concise'', ''Earth Blue'' and the '' Earth Platinum''. Millennium House was awarded Best Overall Atlas Award in June 2010, by the International Map Trade Association, giving Millennium House this award for the third year in row.

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Millennium House Publishing

International Map Trade Association Awards

Gordon Cheers on Library Thing

Gordon Cheers on Good Reads

Manly Daily - Gordon Cheers Goes Into The Record Book

Flora's Orchids

Gordon Cheers - National Library Of Australia

Muscat Daily "The World's Largest Atlas Ever" Article
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