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Flora Britannica
Richard Mabey
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Description for Flora Britannica
Hardcover. Covering the native and naturalized wild plants of England, Scotland and Wales, this reference guide to plants and flowers contains over 500 colour images. Num Pages: 480 pages, 1. BIC Classification: GBC; PST; WMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 291 x 229 x 37. Weight in Grams: 2206.
Flora Britannica covers the native and naturalised plants of England, Scotland and Wales, and, while full of fascinating history, is topical and modern. 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. It is also unique in that information has been supplied by the people themselves. Five years of intensive original ... Read more
Flora Britannica covers the native and naturalised plants of England, Scotland and Wales, and, while full of fascinating history, is topical and modern. 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. It is also unique in that information has been supplied by the people themselves. Five years of intensive original ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Chatto & Windus / Sinclair Stevenson
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Condition
New
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781856193771
SKU
V9781856193771
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-99
About Richard Mabey
Richard Mabey is the father figure of modern nature writing in the UK. Since 1972 he has written some 40 influential books, including the prize-winning Nature Cure and Gilbert White: a Biography, and has edited both Birds Britannica and Bugs Britannica. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Vice-President of the Open Spaces Society. ... Read more
Reviews for Flora Britannica
A page-turner. He seamlessly weaves together the cultural and social history of wild plants... Undoubtedly the most fascinating book I own
Andy Sturgeon
Gardens Illustrated
Andy Sturgeon
Gardens Illustrated