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Richard Mabey The Cabaret of Plants (Paperback). 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. Further DetailsTitle: The Cabaret of Plants Condition: New Subtitle: Botany and the Imagination Author: Richard Mabey Format: Paperback ISBN-10: 1861979584 EAN: 9781861979582 ISBN: 9781861979582 Edition: Main Publisher: Profile Books Ltd Genre: Home Garden & Pets Release Date: 10/06/2016 Description: 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. Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: GB Item Height: 198mm Item Length: 129mm Item Width: 30mm Item Weight: 605g Release Year: 2016 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
