Plant Hunting on the Edge of the World
Author: Francis Kingdon Ward
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Published: 1974
Total Pages: 262
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Plant Hunting on the Edge of the World
Author: Francis Kingdon-Ward
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Published: 1930
Total Pages: 424
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKHimalayan Enchantment
Author: Francis Kingdon Ward
Publisher: Serindia Publications, Inc.
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780906026229
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe last of the great plant hunters, Frank Kingdon-Ward undertook 25 major expeditions over a period of nearly 50 years, and collected and numbered more than 23,000 plants. English gardens are still enriched by the poppies, lilies, primulas, rhododendrons and many other plants that he introduced.
Plants from the Edge of the World
Author: Mark Flanagan
Publisher: Timber Press (OR)
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780881926767
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt the heart of this descriptive and entertaining travelogue is the authors' personal tale of exciting rare plant discoveries in the Far East. Vividly illustrated with color maps and photographs.
My Garden (book):
Author: Jamaica Kincaid
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 0374281866
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn an intimate, playful, and penetrating book on gardens, the plants that fill them, and the gardeners who tend them, Kinkaid examines the idea of the garden on Antigua and considers the implications of the English formal garden in colonized countries. Illustrations.
My Favorite Plant
Author: Jamaica Kincaid
Publisher: Picador
Published: 2024-04-02
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 125033151X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA delightful compendium of writing on plants. The passion for gardening and the passion for words come together in this inspired anthology, a collection of essays on topics as diverse as beans and roses, by writers who garden and by gardeners who write. Among the contributors are Christopher Lloyd, on poppies; Marina Warner, who remembers the Guinée rose; and Henri Cole, who offers poems on the bearded iris and on peonies. There is also an explanation of the sexiness of castor beans from Michael Pollan and an essay from Maxine Kumin on how, as Henry David Thoreau put it, one "[makes] the earth say beans instead of grass." Most of the essays are new in print, but Colette, Katharine S. White, D. H. Lawrence, and several other old favorites make appearances. Jamaica Kincaid, the much-admired writer and a passionate gardener herself, rounds up this diverse crew. A wonderful gift for green thumbs, My Favorite Plant is a happy collection of fresh takes on old friends. Other contributors include: Hilton Als Mary Keen Ken Druse Duane Michals Michael Fox David Raffeld Ian Frazier Graham Stuart Thomas Daniel Hinkley Wayne Winterrowd
A World Connecting
Author: Emily S. Rosenberg
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2012-10-30
Total Pages: 1168
ISBN-13: 0674047214
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBetween 1870 and 1945, advances in communication and transportation simultaneously expanded and shrank the world. In five interpretive essays, A World Connecting goes beyond nations, empires, and world wars to capture the era’s defining feature: the profound and disruptive shift toward an ever more rapidly integrating world.
Transnational Currents in a Shrinking World
Author: Emily S. Rosenberg
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2014-04-21
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0674281330
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEmily Rosenberg examines the social and cultural networks that emerged from global exchanges between 1870 and 1945. Transnational connections were being formed many decades before "globalization" became a commonplace term in economic and political discourse, and these currents underscore the fluidity of spatial and personal identifications.
The Plant Hunters
Author: Anita Silvey
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Published: 2015-12-15
Total Pages: 97
ISBN-13: 1466895292
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDriven by an all-consuming passion, the plant hunters traveled around the world, facing challenges at every turn: tropical illnesses, extreme terrain, and dangerous animals. They battled piranhas, tigers, and vampire bats. Even the plants themselves could be lethal! But these intrepid eighteenth- and nineteenth-century explorers were determined to find and collect new and unusual specimens, no matter what the cost. Then they tried to transport the plants—and themselves—home alive. Creating an important legacy in science, medicine, and agriculture, the plant hunters still inspire the scientific and environmental work of contemporary plant enthusiasts. Working from primary sources—journals, letters, and notes from the field—Anita Silvey introduces us to these daring adventurers and scientists. She takes readers into the heart of their expeditions to then-uncharted places such as the Amazon basin, China, and India. As she brings a colorful cast of characters to life, she shows what motivated these Indiana Jones–type heroes. In The Plant Hunters, science, history, and adventure have been interwoven to tell a largely forgotten—yet fascinating—story.
Life in the Himalaya
Author: Maharaj K. Pandit
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2017-06-19
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 067497865X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe collision of the Indian and Eurasian plates around fifty million years ago profoundly altered earth’s geography and regional climates. The rise of the Himalaya led to intensification of the monsoon, the birth of massive glaciers and turbulent rivers, and an efflorescence of ecosystems along the most extreme elevational gradient on Earth. When the Ice Age ended, humans became part of this mix, and today nearly one quarter of the world’s population inhabits its river basins, from Afghanistan to Myanmar. Life in the Himalaya examines the region’s geophysical and biological systems and explores the past and future of human sustainability in the mountain’s shadow. Maharaj Pandit divides the Himalaya’s history into four phases. During the first, the mountain and its ecosystems formed. In the second, humans altered the landscape, beginning with nomadic pastoralism, continuing to commercial deforestation, and culminating in pockets of resistance to forest exploitation. The third phase saw a human population explosion, accompanied by road and dam building and other large-scale infrastructure that degraded ecosystems and caused species extinctions. Pandit outlines a future networking phase which holds the promise of sustainable living within the mountain’s carrying capacity. Today, the Himalaya is threatened by recurrent natural disasters and is at risk of catastrophic loss of life. If humans are to have a sustainable future there, Pandit argues, they will need to better understand the region’s geological vulnerability, ecological fragility, and sociocultural sensitivity. Life in the Himalaya outlines the mountain’s past in order to map a way forward.
