Flora Britannica [Audiobook] download free by Richard Mabey
- Listen audiobook: Flora Britannica
- Author: Richard Mabey
- Release date: 1998/10/6
- Publisher: VINTAGE PUBLISHING
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Natural History
- ISBN: 9781856193771
- Rating: 8.9 of 10
- Votes: 540
- Review by: Gerardo Spencer
- Review rating: 7.05 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/9
- Duration: 6H1M41S in 256 kbps (96 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-12
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: Shorten, FLAC, MPEG4, WAV, WMA, MP3 (compression RPM, RAR, EML, ZIP, ARC, LZO)
- Total pages original book: 480
- Includes a PDF summary of 57 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 44M30S (11.4 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: Flora Britannica covers the native and naturalised plants of England, Scotland and Wales, and, while full of fascinating history, is topical and modern. Indeed, Flora Britannica is the definitive contemporary flora, an encyclopaedia of living folklore, a register - a sort of Domesday Book.It is unique in that it is not a botanical flora but a cultural one - an account of the role of wild plants in social life, arts, custom and landscape. It is also unique in that information has been supplied by the people themselves. Five years of intensive original research have aroused popular interest and `grassroots' involvement on an exceptional scale. People all over Britain - both rural and urban - have been encouraged to record and celebrate the cultural dimensions of their own flora, and to send their memories and anecdotes, observations and regional knowledge to Flora Britannica.The result is a nationwide record of the popular culture, domestic uses and social meanings of our wild plants. It is both useful and delightful - superbly written by one of the most outstanding English authors on natural history and illustrated with nearly 500 photographs. Including trees and ferns, it covers 1,000 species, many of them in considerable detail. A new flora for the people, Flora Britannica is a testimony to the continuing relationship between nature and human beings, and a celebration that the seasons and the landscape, local character and identity, still matter in Britain.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Botany & Plant Sciences, Trees, Wildflowers & Plants, Gardening: Plants, Reference Works
- Download servers: Torrent, OpenDrive, Librevault, Mediafire, Google Drive, Dropbox, MEGA, Depositfiles, Hotfile. Compressed in RPM, RAR, EML, ZIP, ARC, LZO
- Format: Hardback
- Approximate value: 84.37 USD
- Dimensions: 226x287x36mm
- Weight: 2,209g
- Printed by: CHATTO & WINDUS
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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