The Cabaret of Plants: Botany and the Imagination [Audiobook] download free by Richard Mabey
- Listen audiobook: The Cabaret of Plants: Botany and the Imagination
- Author: Richard Mabey
- Release date: 2016/9/2
- Publisher: PROFILE BOOKS LTD
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Biography
- ISBN: 9781861979582
- Rating: 9.06 of 10
- Votes: 550
- Review by: Camdyn Barber
- Review rating: 7.46 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/7
- Duration: 4H47M14S in 256 kbps (76.8 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-10
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MPEG4, FLAC, Apple Lossless, WAV, MP3, WMA (compression RAR, XZ, ZIP, 7Z)
- Total pages original book: 384
- Includes a PDF summary of 37 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 28M5S (7.4 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: In The Cabaret of Plants, Mabey explores the plant species which have challenged our imaginations, awoken our wonder, and upturned our ideas about history, science, beauty and belief. Picked from every walk of life, they encompass crops, weeds, medicines, religious gathering-places and a water lily named after a queen. Beginning with pagan cults and creation myths, the cultural significance of plants has burst upwards, sprouting into forms as diverse as the panacea (the cure-all plant ginseng, a single root of which can cost up to $10,000), Newton's apple, the African 'vegetable elephant' or boabab - and the mystical, night-flowering Amazonian cactus, the moonflower.Ranging widely across science, art and cultural history, poetry and personal experience, Mabey puts plants centre stage, and reveals a true botanical cabaret, a world of tricksters, shape-shifters and inspired problem-solvers, as well as an enthralled audience of romantics, eccentric amateur scientists and transgressive artists. The Cabaret of Plants celebrates the idea that plants are not simply 'the furniture of the planet', but vital, inventive, individual beings worthy of respect - and that to understand this may be the best way of preserving life together on Earth.
- Other categories, genre or collection: History Of Science, Trees, Wildflowers & Plants, General & World History, Botany & Plant Sciences, Gardening Books, Anthropology, Memoirs, Natural History Books, Horticulture
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 17.86 USD
- Dimensions: 131x196x40mm
- Weight: 605g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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