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The Cabaret of Plants
- Botany and the Imagination
Engelsk Paperback
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The Cabaret of Plants
- Botany and the Imagination
Engelsk Paperback

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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 the mystical, night-flowering Amazonian cactus, the moonflower.Ranging widely across science, art and cultural history, poetry and personal experience, Mabey puts plants centre stage, and reveals a true botanical cabaret, a world of tricksters, shape-shifters and inspired problem-solvers, as well as an enthralled audience of romantics, eccentric amateur scientists and transgressive artists. The Cabaret of Plants celebrates the idea that plants are not simply ''the furniture of the planet'', but vital, inventive, individual beings worthy of respect - and that to understand this may be the best way of preserving life together on Earth.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
384
ISBN-13:
9781861979582
Indbinding:
Paperback
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ISBN-10:
1861979584
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Udg. Dato:
6 okt 2016
Længde:
35mm
Bredde:
197mm
Højde:
129mm
Forlag:
Profile Books Ltd
Oplagsdato:
6 okt 2016
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