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From the beginning human beings have made use of plants - to provide food, to build shelters, to trade, or to tell stories about ourselves in which plants have only a minor role. Perhaps enough is enough? Are we starting to believe that the domestication of plants - the 'fencing of paradise' - is a solution for the world's ills? Do we imagine that a tamed version of nature could be a substitute for the vanishing wild places of the planet?
Richard Mabey sets out to explore our landscape not as a 'sever scientist' but as an 'interpreter' or 'messenger', seeing nature on its own terms, rather than as a means to some human end. Mischievously snaffling seeds at the Eden Project and travelling from the Mediterranean to the Tropics to explore subjects as diverse as the French lavender industry, Victorian orchid cults or sugar production, while picking over buzzwords such as 'renewables' and 'sustainable', this is Richard Mabey on particularly sparkling and provocative form.
'There is plenty here to fascinate. Mabey's writing is richly evocative, his breadth of reference enormous.'
Financial Times Magazine
'He is a lucid and precise writer, with a poet's gift for language, a scholar's depth of reference and a naturalist's passions.'
Sunday Times
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Description du livre Paperback. Etat : Very Good. 240 pages. The first botanical gardens were set up to gather the world's plants and recreate a Garden of Eden. Using the Eden Project as a springboard, Richard Mabey explores the myth of the Garden of Eden. From the Hardcover edition. Editorial Reviews About the Author Richard Mabey is the author of the bestselling, award-winning and ground-breaking Flora Britannica, as well as ma ny highly praised books about nature and the environment, includi ng Food for Free and The Unofficial Countryside. His book about G ilbert White won the Whitbread Biography of the Year. From the H ardcover edition. N° de réf. du vendeur 984n