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The cabaret of plants, forty thousand years of plant life and the human imagination, Richard Mabey

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The cabaret of plants, forty thousand years of plant life and the human imagination, Richard Mabey

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-357) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The cabaret of plants

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Richard Mabey

Sub title

forty thousand years of plant life and the human imagination

Summary

A rich, sweeping, and wonderfully readable work of botanical history, The Cabaret of Plants explores dozens of plant species that for millennia have challenged our imaginations, awoken our wonder, and upturned our ideas about history, science, beauty, and belief. Going back to the beginnings of human history, Mabey shows how flowers, trees, and plants have been central to human experience not just as sources of food and medicine but as objects of worship, actors in creation myths, and symbols of war and peace, life and death

Target audience

adult

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Forty thousand years of plant life and the human imagination

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