Botanical Revelation : European Encounters with Australian Plants Before Darwin
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1742236472
ISBN-13
9781742236476
Publisher
NewSouth Publishing
Imprint
NewSouth Publishing
Country of Manufacture
AU
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 1st, 2019
Print length
384 Pages
Weight
2,832 grams
Dimensions
25.10 x 31.00 x 4.00 cms
Product Classification:
History of scienceTrees, wildflowers & plantsTrees, wildflowers and plants: general interest
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Provides an analysis of early European understanding of Australia's flora. Combining science, horticulture, art and economics, this lavishly illustrated book reveals the motives and complex networks that led to the spread of knowledge and cultivation of hundreds of Australian plants in Europe in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
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:
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
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