Flora's Feast
Author: Walter Crane
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Published: 1892
Total Pages: 52
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs winter begins to fade, Queen Flora goes to her garden and awakens the flowers.
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Author: Walter Crane
Publisher:
Published: 1892
Total Pages: 52
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs winter begins to fade, Queen Flora goes to her garden and awakens the flowers.
Author: Walter Crane
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2002-02-01
Total Pages: 52
ISBN-13: 9780486418582
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCreated by a celebrated late-Victorian era illustrator and painter. Features 40 full-color depictions of ethereal figures clad in flowery garments, each of which appears with a whimsical verse. A treasure for admirers of fine book illustration, this charming volume will also delight flower lovers of all ages and anyone enchanted by fairies and make-believe.
Author: DK
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2018-10-23
Total Pages: 440
ISBN-13: 0744046319
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLet the experts at the Royal Botanic Gardens guide you around the beautiful and mysterious world that is the plant kingdom. From regulating the air we breathe to providing food, clothes, fuels, and medicines - plants are fundamental to our lives. Discover an extraordinary diversity of species, which includes a grass that grows a meter a day, roots that breathe air, and "queen of the night" cactuses whose rare blooms vanish before dawn. In a combination of art and science, Flora celebrates plants from majestic trees to microscopic algae, explaining how they germinate, grow, and reproduce. It presents species that have evolved to accommodate pollinating insects such as the foxglove, and plants that have adapted to flourish in even the most hostile of habitats. Pierre-Joseph Redoute in the 18th-century was described as the "Raphael of flowers". Flora showcases his botanical paintings as well as those of Georg Ehret and others in this gorgeous visual celebration of plants through the ages. Whether you are a keen gardener, naturalist, or botany student, this beautiful book is a treat that will entice, inform, and amaze.
Author: Walter Crane
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Published: 1890
Total Pages: 58
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David C. Stuart
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780674011045
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs our earliest ancestors migrated out of Africa, they encountered entirely new floras. By sampling these, they found plants that appeared to (and sometimes did) heal wounds, cure maladies, and ease troubled minds. This process of discovery continues today, as multinational pharmaceutical companies bioprospect in the globe's remaining wild places for the next tamoxifen or digitalis. The gardener and botanist David Stuart tells the fascinating story of botanical medicine, revealing more than soothing balms and heroic cures. Most of the truly powerful and effective medicinal plants are double-edged, with a dark side to balance the light. They can heal or kill, calm or enslave, lift depression or summon our gods and monsters. Often the difference between these polar effects is a simple change in dosage. Stuart chronicles the tale of how the herbal materia medica of healing and killing plants has sparked wars, helped establish intercontinental trade routes, and seeded fortunes. As plant species traveled the globe, their medicinal uses evolved over miles and through centuries. Plants once believed to be cure-alls are now considered too dangerous for use. Others, once so valuable that they sowed the wealth of empires, are merely spices on the kitchen shelf. David Stuart recounts engrossing human stories too, not only of the scientists, explorers, and doctors who gathered, named, and prescribed these plants but also the shamans, magicians, and quacks who claimed to possess the ultimate herbal aphrodisiac or elixir.
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Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2011-10-31
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 0226568709
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWorld-renowned zoologist and photographer Naskrecki leads readers on a time-lapse tour that renders Earth's colossal age comprehensible, visible in creatures and habitats that have persisted, nearly untouched, for hundreds of millions of years.
Author: Mark Griffiths
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Published: 2010-07-06
Total Pages: 525
ISBN-13: 1429964529
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA captivating history of one of the world's most iconic and mysterious flowers Bewitched by a lotus which flowered from three-thousandyear- old seeds in his English garden, Mark Griffiths set out to track the origins and significance of this sublime plant in this beautifully-illustrated book. The Lotus Quest takes Griffiths from the headquarters of the Linnaean Society in London to a mountain top in northern Japan. As he travels in search of this ancient flower, Griffiths looks at the lotus's significance in ancient Egypt and India, the plant's medicinal uses and the inspiration it has provided to Western artists. As he tracks the plant, its story unveils a stunning vision of Japan's feudal era with visits to shrines, ruins, gardens and wild landscapes as well as meetings with priests and archaeologists, philosophers and anthropologists, gardeners and botanists, poets and artists. He even dines on the lotus in a Tokyo cafe. By the end of Griffiths' journey, when he reaches the hauntingly beautiful Japanese temple of Chuson-ji, readers will finally understand why the lotus has obsessed people throughout the ages.
Author: New York Botanical Garden
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2014-01-01
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 0300196628
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents the history and significance of some of the most important works held by the renowned New York City library, including handwritten manuscripts, botanical artworks, herbals, explorer's notebooks, and nineteenth-century media.
Author: David Waltner-Toews
Publisher: ECW Press
Published: 2013-06-13
Total Pages: 157
ISBN-13: 1770903976
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn entertaining and enlightening exploration of why waste matters, this cultural history explores an often ignored subject matter and makes a compelling argument for a deeper understanding of human and animal waste. Approaching the subject from a variety of perspectives--evolutionary, ecological, and cultural--this examination shows how integral excrement is to biodiversity, agriculture, public health, food production and distribution, and global ecosystems. From primordial ooze, dung beetles, bug frass, cat scats, and flush toilets to global trade, pandemics, and energy, this is the awesome, troubled, uncensored story of feces.