Flora Britannica
The Definitive New Guide to Britain's Wild Flowers, Plants and Trees
- Hardcover
480 pages
- Release Date
1 January 1997
Summary
The definitive new guide to wild flowers, plants and trees
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, c…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781856193771 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1856193772 |
| Author: | Richard Mabey |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Chatto & Windus |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 480 |
| Release Date: | 1 January 1997 |
| Weight: | 2.20kg |
| Dimensions: | 288mm x 230mm x 36mm |
| Series: | Britannica |
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A page-turner. He seamlessly weaves together the cultural and social history of wild plants… Undoubtedly the most fascinating book I own
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 *
About The Author
Richard Mabey
Richard Mabey is the father of modern nature writing in the UK. Since 1972 he has written some forty influential books, including the prize-winning Nature Cure, Gilbert White- a Biography, and Flora Britannica. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Vice-President of the Open Spaces Society. He spent the first half of his life amongst the Chiltern beechwoods, and now lives in Norfolk in a house surrounded by ash trees.
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