Flora

Name: Flora
Brand: The Natural History Museum
Price: 63.75 AUD

An Artistic Voyage Through the World of Plants

By: Sandra Knapp

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Hardcover | 22 September 2016

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Hardcover
336 Pages

Dimensions(cm)
35 x 27 x 4

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Flora contains 20 essays on the history of key plant families, including cacti, daffodils, iris, magnolia, poppies, roses, tulips and waterlilies. It explains how plants have adopted remarkable behaviours for survival in a variety of harsh habitats and also tells the remarkable stories of the adventurous botanist explorers who braved disease, slave traders, wars, jungles and other dangers to collect plants now commonly grown in our own gardens.

Flora is graced with hundreds of stunning colour illustrations selected from the vast collection of original botanical paintings held at the Natural History Museum, London.

About the Author

Sandra Knapp is an internationally respected botanist and an expert in the taxonomy and phylogeny of the nightshade family. She took up her current post at the Natural History Museum in London as one of the editors of Flora Mesoamerica, an international collaborative project to provide an integrated identification guide to the plants of Southern Mexico and Central America. She is the author of several books on botany and its history and is actively involved in improving the public understanding of science.

Industry Reviews

'...exquisitely illustrated and beautifully written.' Rebecca Wallersteiner, Hippocratic Post

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