Atlas Of Poetic Botany
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Atlas Of Poetic Botany
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Author : Francis Halle
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2018-11-27
Atlas Of Poetic Botany written by Francis Halle and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-27 with Nature categories.
Botanical encounters in the rainforest: trees that walk, a leaf as big as an awning, a plant that dances. This Atlas invites the reader to tour the farthest reaches of the rainforest in search of exotic—poetic—plant life. Guided in these botanical encounters by Francis Hallé, who has spent forty years in pursuit of the strange and beautiful plant specimens of the rainforest, the reader discovers a plant with just one solitary, monumental leaf; an invasive hyacinth; a tree that walks; a parasitic laurel; and a dancing vine. Further explorations reveal the Rafflesia arnoldii, the biggest flower in the world, with a crown of stamens and pistils the color of rotten meat that exude the stench of garbage in the summer sun; underground trees with leaves that form a carpet on the ground above them; and the biggest tree in Africa, which can reach seventy meters (more tha 200 feet) in height, with a four-meter (about 13 feet) diameter. Hallé's drawings, many in color, provide a witty accompaniment. Like any good tour guide, Hallé tells stories to illustrate his facts. Readers learn about, among other things, Queen Victoria's rubber tree; legends of the moabi tree (for example, that powder from the bark confers invisibility); a flower that absorbs energy from a tree; plants that imitate other plants; a tree that rains; and a fern that clones itself. Hallé's drawings represent an investment in time that returns a dividend of wonder more satisfying than the ephemeral thrill afforded by the photograph. The Atlas of Poetic Botany allows us to be amazed by forms of life that seem as strange as visitors from another planet.
Atlas Of Perfumed Botany
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Author : Jean-Claude Ellena
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2022-04-05
Atlas Of Perfumed Botany written by Jean-Claude Ellena and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-05 with Science categories.
A cartography of fragrance that charts the botany and geography of perfume composition. For perfume makers, each smell carries with it a multitude of associations and impressions that must be carefully analyzed and understood before the sum of all its parts emerges. All perfumers have their own idiosyncratic methods, drawn from their individual olfactory experiences, for classifying fragrances. In Atlas of Perfumed Botany, virtuoso perfumer Jean-Claude Ellena leads readers on a poetic, geographic, and botanical journey of perfume discovery. Ellena offers a varied and fascinating cartography of fragrances, tracing historical connections and cultural exchanges. Full-page entries on plants ranging from bergamot to lavender are accompanied by detailed and vivid full-color botanical illustrations.
Flora Poetica
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Author : Sarah Maguire
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-01-11
Flora Poetica written by Sarah Maguire and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-11 with Poetry categories.
This beautiful anthology brings together over 250 poems about flowers, plants and trees from eight centuries of writing in English, creating a rich bouquet of intriguing juxtapositions. Fourteenth-century lyrics sit next to poems of the twenty-first century; celebrations of plants native to the English soil share the volume with more exotic plant poetry. There are thirty poems about roses, by poets as diverse as Shakespeare, Dorothy Parker and the South African, Seitlhamo Motsapi; but there are also sections devoted to more unusual plants such as the mandrake, the starapple and the tamarind. An ex-gardener, the celebrated poet Sarah Maguire brings her extensive horticultural knowledge to bear on all the poems, arranging them into botanical families, identifying the plants being written about and writing a fascinating introduction. Whether you are a poetry lover, a gardener, a botanist, or simply the purchaser of the occasional bunch of flowers, this unique anthology allows you to luxuriate amidst the world's flora.
An Introduction To Botany In A Series Of Familiar Letters To Which Is Added The Pleasures Of Botanical Pursuits A Poem By S Hoare
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Author : Priscilla Wakefield
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1823
An Introduction To Botany In A Series Of Familiar Letters To Which Is Added The Pleasures Of Botanical Pursuits A Poem By S Hoare written by Priscilla Wakefield and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1823 with categories.
Atlas De Botanique Po Tique
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Author : Eliane Patriarca
language : fr
Publisher: Arthaud
Release Date : 2016-10-19
Atlas De Botanique Po Tique written by Eliane Patriarca and has been published by Arthaud this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-19 with categories.
Trees Are Shape Shifters
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Author : Andrew S. Mathews
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2022-10-25
Trees Are Shape Shifters written by Andrew S. Mathews and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-25 with Nature categories.
An exploration of the anthropogenic landscapes of Lucca, Italy, and how its people understand social and environmental change through cultivation In Italy and around the Mediterranean, almost every stone, every tree, and every hillside show traces of human activities. Situating climate change within the context of the Anthropocene, Andrew Mathews investigates how people in Lucca, Italy, make sense of social and environmental change by caring for the morphologies of trees and landscapes. He analyzes how people encounter climate change, not by thinking and talking about climate, but by caring for the environments around them. Maintaining landscape stability by caring for the forms of trees, rivers, and hillsides is a way that people link their experiences to the past and to larger scale political questions. The human-transformed landscapes of Italy are a harbinger of the experiences that all of us are likely to face, and addressing these disasters will call upon all of us to think about the human and natural histories of the landscapes we live in.
Poetry Of The Vegetable World
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Author : Matthias Jacob Schleiden
language : en
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Release Date : 2023-07-18
Poetry Of The Vegetable World written by Matthias Jacob Schleiden and has been published by Legare Street Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-18 with categories.
Explore the beauty and wonder of botany with this poetic and insightful book. Readers will gain a deeper understanding of the science behind plants and their relationships with humans in this exciting and engaging work. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
An Introduction To Botany In A Series Of Familiar Letters
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Author : Priscilla Wakefield
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1818
An Introduction To Botany In A Series Of Familiar Letters written by Priscilla Wakefield and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1818 with categories.
Botanical Poetics
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Author : Jessica Rosenberg
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2022-10-25
Botanical Poetics written by Jessica Rosenberg and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-25 with Literary Criticism categories.
During the middle years of Queen Elizabeth’s reign, the number of books published with titles that described themselves as flowers, gardens, or forests more than tripled. During those same years, English printers turned out scores of instructional manuals on gardening and husbandry, retailing useful knowledge to a growing class of literate landowners and pleasure gardeners. Both trends, Jessica Rosenberg shows, reflected a distinctive style of early modern plant-thinking, one that understood both plants and poems as composites of small pieces—slips or seeds to be recirculated by readers and planters. Botanical Poetics brings together studies of ecology, science, literary form, and the material text to explore how these developments transformed early modern conceptions of nature, poetic language, and the printed book. Drawing on little-studied titles in horticulture and popular print alongside poetry by Shakespeare, Spenser, and others, Rosenberg reveals how early modern print used a botanical idiom to anticipate histories of its own reading and reception, whether through replanting, uprooting, or fantasies of common property and proliferation. While our conventional narratives of English literary culture in this period see reading as an increasingly private practice, and literary production as more and more of an authorial domain, Botanical Poetics uncovers an alternate tradition: of commonplaces and common ground, of slips of herbs and poetry circulated, shared, and multiplied.
Field Study
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Author : Helen Humphreys
language : en
Publisher: ECW Press
Release Date : 2021-09-21
Field Study written by Helen Humphreys and has been published by ECW Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-21 with Nature categories.
Award-winning and beloved author Helen Humphreys discovers her local herbarium and realizes we need to look for beauty in whatever nature we have left — no matter how diminished Award-winning poet and novelist Helen Humphreys returns to her series of nature meditations in this gorgeously written and illustrated book that takes a deep look at the forgotten world of herbariums and the people who amassed collections of plant specimens in the 19th and 20th centuries. From Emily Dickinson’s and Henry David Thoreau’s collections to the amateur naturalists whose names are forgotten but whose collections still grace our world, herbariums are the records of the often-humble plants that are still with us and those that are lost. Over the course of a year, Humphreys considers life and loss and the importance of finding solace in nature. Illustrated throughout with images of herbarium specimens, Humphreys’s own botanical drawings, and archival photographs, this will be the perfect gift for Humphreys’s many fans, nature enthusiasts, and for all who loved Birds Art Life.