The Cabaret of Plants : : Forty Thousand Years of Plant Life and the Human Imagination
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First published in Great Britain in 2015 under the title: The cabaret of plants: botany and the imagination.
How to See a Plant -- Wooden Manikins: The Cults of Trees -- Myths of Cultivation -- The Shock of the Real: Scientists and Romantics -- New Lands, New Visions -- The Victorian Plant Theatre -- The Real Life Language of Plants.
"The Cabaret of Plants is a masterful, globe-trotting exploration of the relationship between humans and the kingdom of plants by the renowned naturalist Richard Mabey,"--Amazon.com.
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PUBLISHED
New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 2016.
Year Published: 2016
Description: 374 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780393239973
0393239977
SUBJECTS
Botany -- History.