Richard Mabey

Gebundenes Buch

Flora Britannica

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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.

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

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