Scent of the Vanishing Flora
Scent of the Vanishing Flora

Author: Roman Kaiser

Publisher: Wiley-VCH

Published: 2011-01-18

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783906390642

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Inspired by Dougal Stermer's book 'Vanishing Flora', Roman Kaiser worked for more than ten years on collecting the scent of 267 endangered plant species worldwide. In the present volume, he invites us to a journey along the hotspots of biodiversity, all of them bearing endangered species, and discusses their scents. This compilation renders the book an important contribution to the UN International Year of Biodiversity.

Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation
Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation

Author: William T. Hornaday

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2019-11-20

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13:

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"Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation" by William T. Hornaday. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

The Vanishing American
The Vanishing American

Author: Brian W. Dippie

Publisher:

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 472

ISBN-13:

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Traces the turns of U.S. Indian policy and the effects of white social attitudes on Indian assimilation.

Witnesses to a Vanishing America
Witnesses to a Vanishing America

Author: Lee Clark Mitchell

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2014-07-14

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 1400856159

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Propelled across the continent by notions of rugged individualism" and "manifest destiny," pioneer Americans soon discovered that such slogans only partly disguised the fact that building an empire meant destroying a wilderness. Through an astonishing range of media, they voiced their concern about America's westward mission. Drawing on a wide variety of evidence, Lee Clark Mitchell portrays the growing apprehensions Originally published in 1981. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Edible Plants
Edible Plants

Author: Jimmy Fike

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2022-03

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 1684351707

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For over a decade, artist Jimmy Fike traveled across the continental United States in an epic effort to photograph wild edible flora. Edible Plants is the culmination of that journey, featuring over 100 photographs that Fike has selectively colorized to highlight the comestible part of the plant. While the images initially appear to be scientific illustrations or photograms from the dawn of photography when plants were placed directly on sensitized paper and exposed under the sun, a closer look reveals, according to Liesl Bradner of the Los Angeles Times, "haunting [and] eerily beautiful" photographs. Beyond instilling wonder, Fike's contemporary, place-based approach to landscape photography emphasizes our relationship to the natural world, reveals food sources, and encourages environmental stewardship. His clever and beautiful method makes it easy to identify both the specimen and its edible parts and includes detailed descriptions about the plant's wider purposes as food and medicine. Sumptuously illustrated and delightfully informative, Edible Plants is the perfect gift for anyone curious about unlocking the secrets of native North American plants.