Mabberly David J. Botanical Revelation: European Encounters with Australian Plants Before Darwin 9781742236476

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Автор: Mabberly David J.
Название: Botanical Revelation: European Encounters with Australian Plants Before Darwin
ISBN: 9781742236476
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
Классификация:

История естественных наук

Деревья, дикие цветы и растения

ISBN-10: 1742236472
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 384
Вес: 2.83 кг.
Дата издания: 30.01.2020
Серия: History
Язык: English
Размер: 23.50 x 15.24 x 2.16 cm
Читательская аудитория: Professional and scholarly
Ключевые слова: Australasian & Pacific history,Botanical art,Botany & plant sciences,Natural history
Подзаголовок: European encounters with australian plants before darwin
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: One of Gardens Illustrated's Best Books of 2020

Acclaimed author David Mabberley provides a ground-breaking analysis of early European understanding of Australia’s lora. Combining science, horticulture, art and economics, this lavishly illustrated book – with many never before-published images – reveals the motives and complex networks that led to the international spread of knowledge and cultivation of hundreds of Australian plants in Europe in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.Based on the superb Peter Crossing Collection, Botanical Revelation documents a revolutionary phase in the understanding of Australia’s flora and science more generally.

Features:

David Mabberley is one of the world’s foremost botanical scholarsof early colonial Australia
The detailed story of early European encounters with Australianplants is told here for the first time
A beautifully designed and produced book packed with stunningillustrations, many never before published
Uses a comprehensive private library - the Peter Crossing Collection-devoted to the early encountering, documenting and illustratingof Australian plants by Europeans before Darwin came here in1836 - to tell a fascinating story

Дополнительное описание: Australasian and Pacific history|Nature and the natural world: general interest|Botany and plant sciences|Botanical art

Botanical Revelation: European Encounters with Australian Plants Before Darwin, Mabberly David J.