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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
The New Flora Britannica
Author: Flora Britannica
Author: Richard MabeyPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 1856193772
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
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The Cabaret of Plants: Forty Thousand Years of Plant Life and the Human Imagination
Author: Richard MabeyPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393248771
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
"Highly entertaining…Mabey gets us to look at life from the plants’ point of view." —Constance Casey, New York Times The Cabaret of Plants is a masterful, globe-trotting exploration of the relationship between humans and the kingdom of plants by the renowned naturalist Richard Mabey. A rich, sweeping, and wonderfully readable work of botanical history, The Cabaret of Plants explores dozens of plant species that for millennia have challenged our imaginations, awoken our wonder, and upturned our ideas about history, science, beauty, and belief. Going back to the beginnings of human history, Mabey shows how flowers, trees, and plants have been central to human experience not just as sources of food and medicine but as objects of worship, actors in creation myths, and symbols of war and peace, life and death. Writing in a celebrated style that the Economist calls “delightful and casually learned,” Mabey takes readers from the Himalayas to Madagascar to the Amazon to our own backyards. He ranges through the work of writers, artists, and scientists such as da Vinci, Keats, Darwin, and van Gogh and across nearly 40,000 years of human history: Ice Age images of plant life in ancient cave art and the earliest representations of the Garden of Eden; Newton’s apple and gravity, Priestley’s sprig of mint and photosynthesis, and Wordsworth’s daffodils; the history of cultivated plants such as maize, ginseng, and cotton; and the ways the sturdy oak became the symbol of British nationhood and the giant sequoia came to epitomize the spirit of America. Complemented by dozens of full-color illustrations, The Cabaret of Plants is the magnum opus of a great naturalist and an extraordinary exploration of the deeply interwined history of humans and the natural world.
Bugs Britannica
Author: Peter MarrenPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 070118180X
Category : Insects
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Encyclopedias.
Nature Cure
Author: Richard MabeyPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813926216
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Richard Mabey is the author of numerous books on Britain's ecology, including the best-selling Flora Britannica and the Whitbread Prize-winning Gilbert White (Virginia).
Birds Britannica
Author: Mark CockerPublisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 178474378X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Unlike any other bird book, and not an identification guide, this handsome cultural study of all the birds in Britain, is a magnificent achievement and a work of huge importance. An attempt to describe the interaction of birds and humans, it captures the essence of why birds matter.
Catalogue
Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)Publisher:
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1028
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Sale Catalogues
Author: American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 958
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Sale
Author: American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1362
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Sale
Author: Anderson Galleries, IncPublisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 832
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