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The Cabaret of Plants: Botany and the Imagination
Richard Mabey
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Description for The Cabaret of Plants: Botany and the Imagination
Paperback. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: WM; WNP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 31. Weight in Grams: 612.
In The Cabaret of Plants, Mabey explores the plant species which have challenged our imaginations, awoken our wonder, and upturned our ideas about history, science, beauty and belief. Picked from every walk of life, they encompass crops, weeds, medicines, religious gathering-places and a water lily named after a queen. Beginning with pagan cults and creation myths, the cultural significance of plants has burst upwards, sprouting into forms as diverse as the panacea (the cure-all plant ginseng, a single root of which can cost up to $10,000), Newton's apple, the African 'vegetable elephant' or boabab - and ... Read more
In The Cabaret of Plants, Mabey explores the plant species which have challenged our imaginations, awoken our wonder, and upturned our ideas about history, science, beauty and belief. Picked from every walk of life, they encompass crops, weeds, medicines, religious gathering-places and a water lily named after a queen. Beginning with pagan cults and creation myths, the cultural significance of plants has burst upwards, sprouting into forms as diverse as the panacea (the cure-all plant ginseng, a single root of which can cost up to $10,000), Newton's apple, the African 'vegetable elephant' or boabab - and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Profile Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
612g
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781861979582
SKU
V9781861979582
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About Richard Mabey
Richard Mabey is 'the nation's favourite nature writer' (Sunday Telegraph) and 'a national treasure' (Sunday Times), who, 'as a celebrant of the botanical ... has few peers' (Nature Microbiology). He is the author of thirty books, including the bestselling plant bible Flora Britannica, and Nature Cure, which was shortlisted for the Whitbread, Ondaatje and Ackerley Awards. A regular on radio ... Read more
Reviews for The Cabaret of Plants: Botany and the Imagination
Enraptured, visionary, witty and erudite
Daily Telegraph
His language is as rich as the flora he describes ... he makes his case utterly convincingly
Times
A happy tangle of beautiful stories and studies from a career that has stepped between science and poetry ... We are lucky to have him.
Observer
One of this ... Read more
Daily Telegraph
His language is as rich as the flora he describes ... he makes his case utterly convincingly
Times
A happy tangle of beautiful stories and studies from a career that has stepped between science and poetry ... We are lucky to have him.
Observer
One of this ... Read more