The Cabaret of Plants: Forty Thousand Years of Plant Life and the Human Imagination
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 myth…
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- ISBN: 978-0-393-35386-0
- EAN: 9780393353860
- Produktnummer: 20559756
- Verlag: W W Norton & Co
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 384 S.
- Masse: H20.8 cm x B13.9 cm x D2.7 cm 586 g
- Gewicht: 586
Über den Autor
Richard Mabey is the author of Food for Free, Flora Britannica, and Weeds: In Defense of Nature's Most Unloved Plants, among other books. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he has narrated popular BBC television and radio series and written for the Guardian and Granta. He lives in Norfolk, England.
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