The Plant Hunters: The Adventures of the World'S Greatest Botanical Explorers [Audiobook] download free by Carolyn Fry
- Listen audiobook: The Plant Hunters: The Adventures of the World'S Greatest Botanical Explorers
- Author: Carolyn Fry
- Release date: 2013/5/2
- Publisher: THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Natural History
- ISBN: 9780226093314
- Rating: 7.98 of 10
- Votes: 772
- Review by: Phoenix Hardy
- Review rating: 7.05 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/10
- Duration: 46M48S in 256 kbps (12.6 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-18
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WAV, Musepack, OGG, FLAC, WMA, AU, MPEG4, MP3 (compression TZO, ZIP, TAR, RAR, EML, TAR.7Z)
- Total pages original book: 63
- Includes a PDF summary of 5 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 3M9S (1 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: From geraniums to begonias, the common plants that often adorn backyard gardens are rarely native to our region. The same goes for many of the diverse and delicious fruits and vegetables that grace our dinner tables. We take their accessibility and ubiquity for granted, unaware of the great debt we owe to the naturalists and explorers who traveled around the world in search of these then unusual plants and brought back samples and seeds-along with fantastic stories. In The Plant Hunters, Carolyn Fry pays homage to those whose obsession with plants gave rise to our own passion for botanicals and gardening.Lavishly illustrated with more than one hundred images from the archives at the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew, The Plant Hunters offers an accessible history of plant exploration and discovery through short, informative entries. From the naturalists of Alexander the Great's entourage to pioneering botanists such as Joseph Hooker, Joseph Banks, and Alexander von Humboldt, Fry's history covers the globe in its celebration of our fascination with plants. She shows how coconut trees and numerous fruits and vegetables were spread from one country to many, and the significant role that newly discovered plants, including tulips, tea, and rubber, have played in economic history. The Plant Hunters also traces the establishment of botanical gardens and the many uses of plants in medicine. In addition to stunning botanical drawings, the book features several unique facsimiles, including a letter from Carl Linnaeus, the father of taxonomy; extracts from Joseph Hooker's notebooks; an extract from the orchid sketchbook of John Day; and an original map of Kew Gardens made in 1740 by Jean Rocque.This gorgeous and entertaining history will be a perfect gift for gardeners, and anyone fascinated by the intersection of the histories of science and discovery.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Gardening: Plants, Trees, Wildflowers & Plants, Gardening: Flowers, Botany & Plant Sciences, History Of Science
- Download servers: FileServe, FreakShare, Mediafire, Google Drive, Mejor Torrent. Compressed in TZO, ZIP, TAR, RAR, EML, TAR.7Z
- Format: Hardback
- Approximate value: 39.52 USD
- Dimensions: 226x294x25mm
- Weight: 984g
- Printed by: University of Chicago Press
- Published in: United States
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