Richard Mabey

Flora Britannica

With photographs by Bob Gibbons and Gareth Lovett Jones

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Indeed, Flora Britannica is the definitive contemporary flora, an encyclopaedia of living folklore, a register â a sort of Domesday Book. It is unique in that it is not a botanical flora but a cultural one â an account of the role of wild plants in social life, arts, custom and landscape.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sinclair-Stevenson
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 571808
• 1996.
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Oktober 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 295mm x 229mm x 42mm
• Gewicht: 2266g
• ISBN-13: 9781856193771
• ISBN-10: 1856193772
• Artikelnr.: 09587298

Autorenporträt

Richard Mabey is the father of modern nature writing in the UK. Since 1972 he has written some forty influential books, including the prize-winning Nature Cure, Gilbert White: a Biography, and Flora Britannica. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Vice-President of the Open Spaces Society. He spent the first half of his life amongst the Chiltern beechwoods, and now lives in Norfolk in a house surrounded by ash trees.

Rezensionen

A page-turner. He seamlessly weaves together the cultural and social history of wild plants... Undoubtedly the most fascinating book I own Andy Sturgeon Gardens Illustrated