Richard Mabey
Fencing Paradise
The Uses And Abuses Of Plants
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From the beginning human beings have made use of plants - to provide food, to build shelters, to trade, or to tell stories about ourselves in which plants have only a minor role. Perhaps enough is enough? Are we starting to believe that the domestication of plants - the 'fencing of paradise' - is a solution for the world's ills? Do we imagine that a tamed version of nature could be a substitute for the vanishing wild places of the planet?Richard Mabey sets out to explore our landscape not as a 'sever scientist' but as an 'interpreter' or 'messenger', seeing nature on its own terms, rather than as a means to some human end. Mischievously s…
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From the beginning human beings have made use of plants - to provide food, to build shelters, to trade, or to tell stories about ourselves in which plants have only a minor role. Perhaps enough is enough? Are we starting to believe that the domestication of plants - the 'fencing of paradise' - is a solution for the world's ills? Do we imagine that a tamed version of nature could be a substitute for the vanishing wild places of the planet?Richard Mabey sets out to explore our landscape not as a 'sever scientist' but as an 'interpreter' or 'messenger', seeing nature on its own terms, rather than as a means to some human end. Mischievously snaffling seeds at the Eden Project and travelling from the Mediterranean to the Tropics to explore subjects as diverse as the French lavender industry, Victorian orchid cults or sugar production, while picking over buzzwords such as 'renewables' and 'sustainable', this is Richard Mabey on particularly sparkling and provocative form.'There is plenty here to fascinate. Mabey's writing is richly evocative, his breadth of reference enormous.'Financial Times Magazine'He is a lucid and precise writer, with a poet's gift for language, a scholar's depth of reference and a naturalist's passions.'Sunday Times
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4481-2509-8
- EAN: 9781448125098
- Produktnummer: 14341447
- Verlag: Transworld Publishers
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'152 KB
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