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Author : Sir William Jackson Hooker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 736 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (453 download)
Download or read book The British Flora written by Sir William Jackson Hooker and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sir William Jackson Hooker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 742 pages
Book Rating : 4.V/5 ( download)
Download or read book The British Flora, Comprising the Phanerogamous, Or Flowering Plants, and the Ferns written by Sir William Jackson Hooker and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Geoffrey Grigson
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Englishman's Flora written by Geoffrey Grigson and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1975 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gabrielle Hatfield
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141044756
Total Pages : 601 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Hatfield's Herbal written by Gabrielle Hatfield and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2009-03-05 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hatfield's Herbal is the story of how people all over Britain have used its wild plants throughout history, for reasons magical, mystical and medicinal. Gabrielle Hatfield has drawn on a lifetime's knowledge to describe the properties of over 150 native plants, and the customs that surround them: from predicting the weather with seaweed to using deadly nightshade to make ladies' pupils dilate appealingly, and from ensuring a husband's faithfulness with butterbur to warding off witches by planting a rowan tree. Filled with stories, folklore and remedies both strange and practical, this is a memorable and eye-opening guide to the richness of Britain's heritage.
Author : D. J. Mabberley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521414210
Total Pages : 880 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (142 download)
Download or read book The Plant-Book written by D. J. Mabberley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-06-19 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of one of the most practical and authoritative botanical dictionaries available.
Author : Sophie Weston
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 1460366336
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (63 download)
Download or read book THE ENGLISHMAN'S BRIDE written by Sophie Weston and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2014-03-15 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Philip Hardesty, a negotiator for the United Nations, is famed for his cool head. But for the first time in his life, this never-ruffled English aristocrat is getting hot under the collar—over a woman! Kit Romaine is not easily impressed by money or titles; if Philip wants her, he’s going to have to pay her. Once Kit agrees to be his temporary assistant, Philip knows he’s halfway there. Now he just has to work on making her his bride….
Author : Andrew Robert Fausset
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 776 pages
Book Rating : 4.V/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Englishman's Critical and Expository Bible Cyclopaedia written by Andrew Robert Fausset and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004454950
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book From Earth to Art written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-06-08 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Earth to Art presents papers from the ‘Early Medieval Plant Studies’ symposium, a meeting designed to explore the various disciplines which could help to elucidate the plant-names of Anglo-Saxon England, many of which are not understood. The range of disciplines represented includes landscape history, place-name studies, botany, archaeology, art history, Old English literature, the history of food and of medicine, and linguistic approaches such as semantics and morphology. This collection represents a first experimental step in the work of the Anglo-Saxon Plant-Name Survey (ASPNS), a multidisciplinary research project based in the University of Glasgow. ASPNS is dedicated to collecting and reviewing, for the first time, the total multidisciplinary evidence for each plant-name, and establishing new or improved identifications. The results will have implications for various historical studies such as agriculture, pharmacology, nutrition, climate, dialect, and more. Included in the book is the first ASPNS word-study, concerned with the Old English word æspe (the ancestor of ‘aspen’), and it is shown that this tree-name had a broader meaning than has hitherto been suspected. This book will be of interest to historians, botanists, archaeologists, linguists, geographers, gardeners, herbalists, conservationists and anyone interested in the crucial role of plants in history.
Author : Elspeth Beckett
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351404245
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (514 download)
Download or read book Wild flowers of Majorca Minorca and Ibiza written by Elspeth Beckett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visitors to these islands in search of sun and sea are often surprised by theglorious wild flowers, abundant particularly in the spring and late autumn.Many are curious to know more about them.This book offers a means of identification on three levels.For the complete beginner there are illustrations of most of the more strikingwild plants (and of a few cultivated ones).For those who wish to go further, there is help in the form of a botanical key (abasic skill for would-be botanists, and what better place, than a sunny holidayisland to learn it in).For those who already have this skill here is a key to all the wild floweringplants ( except those waiting to be discovered - what a challenge for aninteresting holiday!).
Author : Norman Maclean
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521519667
Total Pages : 789 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (215 download)
Download or read book Silent Summer written by Norman Maclean and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-20 with total page 789 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authoritative and easily accessible account of the wildlife of Britain and Ireland, what is declining, what is not, and why.
Author : Anne Brewis
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004632174
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book The Flora of Hampshire written by Anne Brewis and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-07-03 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This totally new and much needed work on the County’s flora – published in association with the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust – is the first comprehensive study for nearly a century. Excluding the Isle of Wight, it contains over 1750 species of vascular plants including some non-indigenous speces as well as subspecies, varieties and hybrids. In addition, condensed accounts of the lichens (590 taxa) and bryophytes (459 taxa) – groups in which the county is particularly rich – have been contributed by Francis Rose with Ken Sandell and Alan Crundwell respectively. As in Townsend’s Flora of Hampshire (1884), there are introductory chapters on Structure and Geology; Climate; Habitats; and an up-to-date Comparison of Hampshire’s Flora with some other southern Counties (including the Isle of Wight) – all by Francis Rose. There are also chapters on Conservation of the Flora (with a complete list of nature reserves) by Peter Brough and Paul Bowman; Some earlier Workers on the Hampshire Flora by David Allen; and Botanical Recording by Paul Bowman. The Flora ends with an extensive Bibliography and References and a fully comprehensive Index. The principal authors are all experienced Hampshire botanists with an intimate knowledge of its flora.
Author : Clive Chatters
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472942973
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)
Download or read book Saltmarsh written by Clive Chatters and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Saltmarshes are often remote, inhospitable places, neither land nor sea, as hard to pin down as they are to navigate. In this saline odyssey, Clive Chatters has explored his favourite creeks, pools and mudflats to bring us an absorbing celebration of the ecology, biology, geology and history of this scarce and mysterious habitat. There are Tadpole Shrimps, and rare sedges, waders and Wild Celery – even inland saltmarshes – in this tour de force by a superb naturalist and writer.' - BRETT WESTWOOD, naturalist, author and radio presenter Saltmarshes are among Britain's most diverse and dynamic landscapes. They abound around our shores but may also be found inland and at altitude – wherever water, salt and vegetation combine. The species they support range from extreme rarities of specialised habitats to the less demanding denizens of coastal wetlands. Here is a landscape of international importance for migratory birds, endemic plants and an exceptional variety of invertebrates. Clive Chatters has a lifetime's affinity with saltmarshes. In this fifth volume of the British Wildlife Collection, he celebrates their natural history and diversity, from the highly distinctive marshes in the Scottish Highlands to the urban remnants of the Thames estuary now engulfed within the capital. By examining the past of these complex habitats, we can gain an insight into how they have developed, and an understanding of their relationship with people. In addition to their exceptionally diverse natural history, saltmarshes are sources of food and medicine, they play a pivotal role in flood defence and carbon sequestration, and have inspired artistic endeavour.
Author : Richard Mabey
Publisher : Profile Books
ISBN 13 : 1847654010
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (476 download)
Download or read book The Cabaret of Plants written by Richard Mabey and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2015-10-22 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Dr. Keith G R Wheeler
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1466981024
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (669 download)
Download or read book A Natural History of Nettles written by Dr. Keith G R Wheeler and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2007-01-16 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book ever on the much maligned nettles of the world presents a story of these followers of mankind and his cattle throughout history. This study centres on the most abundant and sub-cosmopolitan common stinging nettle (Urtica dioica), but also deals with other nettles throughout the world. Tropical tormentors rich in species include the notorious nettle trees with their formidable stings which fascinated the Europeans after their discovery by botanists on the round-the-world trips of exploration in the 17-19th centuries. Many people on their travels will have met the nettle trees of the Indo-Malay region and other stinging nettles in North and South America, India, etc., which sting and have beautiful flowers but are called nettles; these are also dealt with. The first microscopists and their descriptions of the beautiful stinging hair; the uncovering of the mechanism of its action and the more recent elucidation of the toxins causing the characteristic symptoms is a fascinating one and takes up 3 chapters. The book includes the 100 major scientific works published on the common stinging nettle and never brought to the notice of the general public before. The author spent six years studying the ecology of the nettle patch, its invertebrate herbivores (mainly insects) and vertebrate herbivores (cattle, deer, etc.,) and their interactions with other plants: its secret life is recorded in line drawings and photographs (1000+ individual items). It was not possible to publish these in colour but they are in full colour on a CD-ROM (300 dpi) at the back of the book. Covered also are nettle folklore, fibre use in World War I & II, as a food, fodder, herbal medicine, growth as a competitor plant, habitats, sex (unique exploding stamens), breeding systems, variation, evolution etc.!! Some the world's most beautiful butterflies would not exist without nettles.
Author : Lesley Wylie
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 082298766X
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)
Download or read book The Poetics of Plants in Spanish American Literature written by Lesley Wylie and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Poetics of Plants in Spanish American Literature examines the defining role of plants in cultural expression across Latin America, particularly in literature. From the colonial georgic to Pablo Neruda’s Canto general, Lesley Wylie’s close study of botanical imagery demonstrates the fundamental role of the natural world and the relationship between people and plants in the region. Plants are also central to literary forms originating in the Americas, such as the New World Baroque, described by Alejo Carpentier as “nacido de árboles.” The book establishes how vegetal imaginaries are key to Spanish American attempts to renovate European forms and traditions as well as to the reconfiguration of the relationship between humans and nonhumans. Such a reconfiguration, which persistently draws on indigenous animist ontologies to blur the boundaries between people and plants, anticipates much contemporary ecological thinking about our responsibility towards nonhuman nature and shows how environmental thinking by way of plants has a long history in Latin American literature.
Author : Eugenia W. Herbert
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812205057
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Flora's Empire written by Eugenia W. Herbert and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like their penchant for clubs, cricket, and hunting, the planting of English gardens by the British in India reflected an understandable need on the part of expatriates to replicate home as much as possible in an alien environment. In Flora's Empire, Eugenia W. Herbert argues that more than simple nostalgia or homesickness lay at the root of this "garden imperialism," however. Drawing on a wealth of period illustrations and personal accounts, many of them little known, she traces the significance of gardens in the long history of British relations with the subcontinent. To British eyes, she demonstrates, India was an untamed land that needed the visible stamp of civilization that gardens in their many guises could convey. Colonial gardens changed over time, from the "garden houses" of eighteenth-century nabobs modeled on English country estates to the herbaceous borders, gravel walks, and well-trimmed lawns of Victorian civil servants. As the British extended their rule, they found that hill stations like Simla offered an ideal retreat from the unbearable heat of the plains and a place to coax English flowers into bloom. Furthermore, India was part of the global network of botanical exploration and collecting that gathered up the world's plants for transport to great imperial centers such as Kew. And it is through colonial gardens that one may track the evolution of imperial ideas of governance. Every Government House and Residency was carefully landscaped to reflect current ideals of an ordered society. At Independence in 1947 the British left behind a lasting legacy in their gardens, one still reflected in the design of parks and information technology campuses and in the horticultural practices of home gardeners who continue to send away to England for seeds.
Author : Richard Mabey
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Frampton Flora written by Richard Mabey and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1985 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 300 Victorian flower paintings recently discovered in the attic at Frampton Court in Gloucestershire represent one of the earliest and most intriguing collections of amateur flower paintings to be found to date. They are bold, exactly observed, and beautifully and skilfully executed. Those by Charlotte Anne Purnell in particular show an undiluted talent that must now rank her among the best of her generation. Between 1828 and 1851, the sisters Elizabeth, Charlotte, Catherine and Mary Anne Clifford, and their aunts Charlotte Anne, Catherine Elizabeth and Rosamond, explored minutely their corner of south-west Gloucestershire, and succeeded in painting an impressive number of its native plants. Their chief inspiration was simply the area they lived in. Frampton lies in the Vale of Berkeley, an area of mixed farming, criss-crossed by dykes and streams. The River Severn is just one mile to the west, and five miles to the south was Charlotte Anne's house, Stancombe Park, with its landscaped grounds set amonst the wild Cotswold beechwoods. The Frampton Flora is Richard Mabey's account of the wild flowers, the painters and their paintings, as well as an enduring record of the richness of the English countryside in the early 19th century. Illustrated in colour throughout, this uniquely beautiful book seeks to recreate the charm and intimacy of the original notebooks in which the watercolours were found.
