Weeds - The Story of Outlaw Plants

Informationen zum Autor Richard Mabey is Britain's foremost nature writer, and the author of Flora Britannica , which won a British Book Award, and Birds Britannica . He has a regular column in BBC Wildlife magazine and has written extensively on nature for the national broadsheets. Klappentext Ever since the first human settlements 10,000 years ago, weeds have dogged our footsteps. They are there as the punishment of 'thorns and thistles' in "Genesis" and, two millennia later, as a symbol of "Flanders Field". The author examines how we have tried to define them, explain their persistence, and draw moral lessons from them.A lively and lyrical cultural history of plants in the wrong place by one of Britain´s best and most admired nature writers Zusammenfassung Ever since the first human settlements 10,000 years ago, weeds have dogged our footsteps. They are there as the punishment of 'thorns and thistles' in "Genesis" and, two millennia later, as a symbol of "Flanders Field". The author examines how we have tried to define them, explain their persistence, and draw moral lessons from them.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Mabey, Richard Mabey Mabey Richard
• Publisher: Profile Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 08.03.2012
• EAN: 9781846680816
• ISBN: 978-1-84668-081-6
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 196 mm x 24 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Nature > Nature guide; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works; NATURE / Plants / General, Trees, wildflowers & plants, Trees, wildflowers and plants: general interest