Fencing Paradise, Mabey, Richard

Автор: Mabey Richard Richard Mabey
Название: Weeds
ISBN: 1846680816 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781846680816
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Описание: Ever since the first human settlements 10,000 years ago, weeds have dogged our footsteps. They are there as the punishment of `thorns and thistles` in "Genesis" and, two millennia later, as a symbol of "Flanders Field". The author examines how we have tried to define them, explain their persistence, and draw moral lessons from them.

Автор: Mabey, Richard Marren, Peter
Название: Bugs britannica
ISBN: 070118180X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780701181802
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: `Bugs Britannica`, a companion volume to the bestselling classics `Flora Britannica` and `Birds Britannica`, is structured along a roughly evolving path, from simple cell life-forms - amoeba, worms, crustaceans - to bugs we all might recognise - spiders, butterflies, bees - and back into the water to meet molluscs and `almost-fish`. The book works so triumphantly because Peter Marren and Richard Mabey have examined bugs in the dusty corners of our houses and gardens as well as traversing mountains, lakes and fields. In addition to the fascinating habits of the bug world they have also included the eccentric behaviour of the bug obsessives themselves.

Автор: Mabey Richard
Название: Brush With Nature
ISBN: 1849908257 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781849908252
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Described as `Britain`s greatest living nature writer`, the author has revealed his passion for the natural world in eloquent stories for BBC Wildlife Magazine. This title features his favourite pieces and presents a view of the changing natural landscape in which we live.

Автор: Mabey Richard
Название: Nature Cure
ISBN: 0099531828 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099531821
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Описание: `Britain`s greatest living nature writer` The TimesRediscover the extraodinary power of nature and the British wilderness, from award-winning naturalist and author Richard MabeyIn the last year of the old millennium, Richard Mabey, Britain`s foremost nature writer, fell into a severe depression.

Автор: Mabey Richard
Название: Cabaret of Plants
ISBN: 1861979584 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781861979582
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Описание: 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.