Vanishing Landscapes - The Story of Plants and How We Lost Them

The history of how we became disconnected from nature, told through our relationship with seven precious plants.

About the author

Bonnie Lander Johnson is Fellow and Associate Professor at Downing College, Cambridge University, where she teaches the literature and history of the early modern period and represents the University on the BBC/Cambridge National Short Story Award. Her academic books include Botanical Culture and Popular Belief in Shakespeare's England (Cambridge University Press), The Cambridge Handbook to Literature and Plants, Chastity in Early Stuart Literature and Culture (Cambridge University Press) and Blood Matters (University of Pennsylvania Press). Bonnie is also a fiction and non-fiction writer. Her work has appeared in Hinterland, The Belfast Review, Howl and Dappled Things, and her fiction has been shortlisted for The Royal Society of Literature's V. S. Pritchett Prize and The Brick Lane Bookshop Short Story Prize.

Product details

• Authors: Bonnie Lander Johnson, Johnson Bonnie Lander
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.07.2025
• EAN: 9781399731522
• ISBN: 978-1-399-73152-2
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 238 mm x 32 mm
• Weight: 515 g
• Illustrations: images (1 per chapter)
• Subjects: Guides > Nature > Nature guide; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Botany, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Social and cultural history, Trees, wildflowers & plants, Biography and non-fiction prose, Trees, wildflowers and plants: general interest