Author: Francis Kingdon WardPublisher:
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
The Romance of Plant Hunting
Author: Francis Kingdon WardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Plant Hunting
Author: Francis Kingdon WardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
The Romance of Plant Hunting
Author: Francis Kingdon WardPublisher:
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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Novel Cultivations
Author: Elizabeth Hope ChangPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813942497
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Shortlisted for the Best Book Prize from the British Society of Literature and Science Nineteenth-century English nature was a place of experimentation, exoticism, and transgression, as site and emblem of the global exchanges of the British Empire. Popular attitudes toward the transplantation of exotic species—botanical and human—to Victorian greenhouses and cities found anxious expression in a number of fanciful genre texts, including mysteries, science fiction, and horror stories. Situated in a mid-Victorian moment of frenetic plant collecting from the far reaches of the British empire, Novel Cultivations recognizes plants as vital and sentient subjects that serve—often more so than people—as actors and narrative engines in the nineteenth-century novel. Conceptions of native and natural were decoupled by the revelation that nature was globally sourced, a disruption displayed in the plots of gardens as in those of novels. Elizabeth Chang examines here the agency asserted by plants with shrewd readings of a range of fictional works, from monstrous rhododendrons in Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca and Mexican prickly pears in Olive Schreiner’s Story of an African Farm, to Algernon Blackwood’s hair-raising "The Man Whom the Trees Loved" and other obscure ecogothic tales. This provocative contribution to ecocriticism shows plants as buttonholes between fiction and reality, registering changes of form and content in both realms.
Plant Hunter's Paradise
Author: Francis Kingdon-WardPublisher:
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: Dulau & Co., ltd., Booksellers, LondonPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 928
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The Plant Hunter
Author: Cassandra Leah QuavePublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1984879138
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
The uplifting, adventure-filled memoir of one groundbreaking scientist’s quest to develop new ways to fight illness and disease through the healing powers of plants. “A fascinating and deeply personal journey.” —Amy Stewart, author of Wicked Plants and The Drunken Botanist Traveling by canoe, ATV, mule, airboat, and on foot, Dr. Cassandra Quave has conducted field research everywhere from the flooded forests of the remote Amazon to the isolated mountaintops in Albania and Kosovo—all in search of natural compounds, long-known to traditional healers, that could help save us all from the looming crisis of untreatable superbugs. Dr. Quave is a leading medical ethnobotanist—someone who identifies and studies plants that may be able to treat antimicrobial resistance and other threatening illnesses—helping to provide clues for the next generation of advanced medicines. And as a person born with multiple congenital defects of her skeletal system, she's done it all with just one leg. In The Plant Hunter, Dr. Quave weaves together science, botany, and memoir to tell us the extraordinary story of her own journey.
Over the Balkans and South Russia
Author: Henry Albert JonesPublisher:
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Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
What Shall I Read Next?
Author: F. Seymour SmithPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521064929
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
Originally published in 1953, What Shall I Read Next? lists nearly 2000 works published after 1900, with the compiler's own appreciatory comments on selected items. It was a companion volume to Mr Seymour Smith's English Library. Both books are published on behalf of the National Book League. In his introduction, explaining the scope and purpose of the book, Mr Seymour Smith wrote: 'Some will find it useful merely as a shopping list, reminding them of books they know something about already, and serving as a remembrancer. To others, and particularly to younger readers, it may introduce books which have so far escaped their notice. It is hoped, too, that for booksellers and librarians it will have a practical use as a desk-book, for answering enquiries, for serving as a check list for stock, and for use as a reference book when memory fails'.
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