Weeds - The Story of Outlaw Plants

Informationen zum Autor Richard Mabey is one of our greatest nature writers. He is the author of some thirty books including the bestselling plant bible Flora Britannica , Food for Free , Turned Out Nice Again, Weeds: the Story of Outlaw Plants and Nature Cure which was shortlisted for the Whitbread, Ondaatje and Ackerley Awards. His biography, Gilbert White won the Whitbread Biography Award. A regular commentator on radio and in the national press, he was elected a Fellow in the Royal Society of Literature in 2012. He lives in Norfolk. 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