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The Cabaret of Plants: Forty Thousand Years of Plant Life and the Human Imagination

Paperback • 2017 • English

The Cabaret of Plants: Forty Thousand Years of Plant Life and the Human Imagination

By Richard Mabey

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About the book

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 flowe...Show more

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ISBN

9780393353860

Publisher

W. W. Norton Company

Published year

2017

Language

English

Original title

The Cabaret of Plants: Forty Thousand Years of Plant Life and the Human Imagination

Format

Paperback

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