The Cabaret of Plants: Forty Thousand Years of Plant Life and the Human Imagination

by Richard Mabey

Book Overview

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.

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393239977
• ISBN13: 9780393239973
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.4"