Flora Britannica - The Definitive New Guide to Britain's Wild Flowers, Plants and Trees

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

Product details

• Authors: Richard Mabey
• Publisher: Chatto and Windus
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.10.1996
• EAN: 9781856193771
• ISBN: 978-1-85619-377-1
• No. of pages: 480
• Dimensions: 226 mm x 287 mm x 36 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Nature; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Botany, GARDENING / Reference, Gardening: plants, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Botany & plant sciences, Gardening: plants and cultivation guides, Botany and plant sciences