Green Kingdom
The Family History of Plants
$67.99
- Hardcover
384 pages
- Release Date
29 November 2026
Summary
The epic story of the plant kingdom, showing its staggering variety and ingenuity over half a billion years, from an extraordinary new talent in natural-history writing.
Most of life on Earth is plant. And yet the half a million species of plant alive today are a minuscule fraction of those that have ever existed. The true story of the plant kingdom’s almost inconceivable variety and ingenuity is to be found in the past.
From the arrival of the first plants on land 484 million…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781847928337 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1847928331 |
| Author: | Ben Dark |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | The Bodley Head Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 29 November 2026 |
| Weight: | 750g |
| Dimensions: | 240mm x 156mm x 40mm |
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About The Author
Ben Dark
Ben Dark is a historian, broadcaster, and former head gardener. He holds degrees in history and horticulture and is the author of The Grove: A Nature Odyssey in 19 1⁄2 Front Gardens, which was named “the best gardening book of 2022” by The Telegraph. He is also the creator and host of the award-winning Garden Log and Dear Gardener podcasts. In 2022, he won Journalist of the Year at the Garden Media Guild awards for his magazine journalism.
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