Author: Berthold SeemannPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Palms
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Popular History of the Palms and Their Allies
Author: Berthold SeemannPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Palms
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Popular History of the Palms and Their Allies (1856)
Author: Berthold SeemannPublisher:
ISBN: 9781104892623
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany
Author: Palm
Author: Fred GrayPublisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1780239572
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
The extraordinary palm: diverse and prolific, symbolic and often sacred, essential and exotic (and at times erotic), exploited and controversial. The signature greenery of the tropics and subtropics, these record-breaking plants produce the world’s biggest and heaviest seed, the longest leaf, and the longest stem. In the superbly illustrated, similarly extraordinary Palm, Fred Gray portrays the immense cultural and historical significance of these iconic and controversial plants, unfurling a tale as long and beguiling as their bladed fronds. As Gray shows, palms sustained rainforest communities for thousands of years, contributing to the development of ancient civilizations across the globe. But as palms gained mystical and religious significance, they also became a plant of abstractions and fantasies, a contradictory symbol of leisure and luxury, of escaping civilization and getting closer to nature—and at times to danger and devastation. In the era of industry and empire, the palm and its myriad meanings were exported to far colder climes. Palms were shown off as exceptional performers in iconic greenhouses and used to clothe, romanticize, and glamorize an astonishing diversity of new places far from their natural homelands. And today, as millions of people worldwide consume palm oil daily, the plant remains embedded in consumer society—and mired in environmental controversy.
Publishers' circular and booksellers' record
Author: Belgravia
Author: A General Catalogue of Books in Every Department of Literature for Public School Libraries in Upper Canada
Author: Publisher: Department of Public Instruction for Upper Canada by Lovell & Gibson
ISBN:
Category : School libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 900
Book Description
A general catalogue of books in every department of literature, for public school libraries in Upper Canada. Sanctioned by the Council of Public Instruction. ... With the general provisions of the law and the regulations for the establishment of public libraries, etc
Author: Ontario. Department of EducationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Palms and People in the Amazon
Author: Nigel SmithPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319055097
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
This book explores the degree to which landscapes have been enriched with palms by human activities and the importance of palms for the lives of people in the region today and historically. Palms are a prominent feature of many landscapes in Amazonia, and they are important culturally, economically, and for a variety of ecological roles they play. Humans have been reorganizing the biological furniture in the region since the first hunters and gatherers arrived over 20,000 years ago.
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Author: Anderson Galleries, IncPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 802
Book Description