| Description |
1 online resource (374 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) |
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data file rda |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Print version record. |
| Contents |
Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Introduction: The Vegetable Plot; How to see a Plant; 1. Symbols from the Ice: Plants as Food and Forms; 2. Bird's-Eyes: Primulas; Wooden Manikins: The Cults of Trees; 3. The Cult of Celebrity: The Fortingall Yew; 4. The Rorschach Tree: Baobab; 5. The Big Trees: Sequoias; 6. Methuselahs: Bristlecones and Date Palms; 7. Provenance and Extinction: Wood's Cycad; 8. From Workhorse to Green Man: The Oak; Myths of Cultivation; 9. The Celtic Bush: Hazel; 10. The Vegetable Lamb: Cotton; 11. Staff of Life: Maize; 12. The Panacea: Ginseng. |
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13. The Vegetable Mudfish: SamphireThe Shock of the Real: Scientists and Romantics; 14. Life versus Entropy: Newton's Apple; 15. Intimations of Photosynthesis: Mint and Cucumber; 16. The Challenge of Carnivorous Plants: The Tipitiwitchet; 17. Wordsworth's Daffodils; 18. On Being Pollinated: Keats's Forget-Me-Not; New Lands, New Visions; 19. Jewels of the Desert: Francis Masson's Starfish and Birds of Paradise; 20. Growing Together: The East India Company's Fusion Art; 21. Chiaroscuro: The Impressionists' Olive Trees; 22. Local Distinctiveness: Cornfield Tulips and Horizontal Flax. |
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The Victorian Plant Theatre23. 'Vegetable jewellery': The Fern Craze; 24. 'The Queen of Lilies': Victoria amazonica; 25. A Sarawakan Stinkbomb: The Titan Arum; 26. Harlequins and Mimics: The Orchid Troupe; The Real Language of Plants; 27. The Butterfly Effect: The Moonflower; 28. The Canopy Cooperative: Air Plants and Bromeliads; 29. Plant Intelligence: Mimosa; Epilogue: The Tree of After Life; Additional References and Sources; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Index. |
| Summary |
AIn Richard Mabey's characteristically lyrical and informative tone, -- From Ice Age artists, to the Romantic poets, via colonialism and the nineteenth century botanical mania of empire, Mabey concludes his magnum opus with the latest revelations of possible 'plant intelligence' in this extraordinary collection of encounters between plants and people. |
| Awards |
Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries (CBHL) Annual Literature Award - Nominee, 2016 |
| Subject |
Botany -- History.
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Plants -- History.
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Imagination -- History.
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Imagination.
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Botany -- history
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Plants
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Imagination
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imagination.
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Botany. (OCoLC)fst00836869
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Imagination. (OCoLC)fst00967585
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Plants. (OCoLC)fst01065823
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Human-plant relationships.
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Mabey, Richard, 1941- Cabaret of plants 9781861976628 (OCoLC)927291647 |
| ISBN |
9781847654014 (electronic bk.) |
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1847654010 (electronic bk.) |
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9780393248777 (electronic bk.) |
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0393248771 (electronic bk.) |
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