Weeds: In Defense of Nature's Most Unloved Plants - Couverture souple

Mabey, Richard

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0062065467 ISBN 13 : 9780062065469

Editeur : Ecco, 2012

Synopsis

Book by Mabey Richard

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

“Fascinating. . . . [A] loving tribute to the common weed.” (Lisa Ko, author of The Leavers)

“Entertaining. . . . [A] sprightly journey through horticultural history.” (Wall Street Journal)

“Wry and subtle. . . . Mabey argues without scolding, that at a time of great environmental change and uncertainty, weeds may soon be all we’ve got left.” (New York Times Book Review)

“Smart. . . . Mabey is at his best when he takes us along on his own weedy adventures.” (Washington Post)

“Like Michael Pollan in “The Botany of Desire,” Mabey shows that it is not at all clear here who is in charge, who has the moral high ground and who will survive long after the last weed has been pulled from the last over-tended suburban acre.” (Los Angeles Times)

“Excellent. . . . He tracks humanity’s ongoing tussle with weeds, all in prose that delights at every turn.” (Cleveland Plain Dealer)

“Elegant and thoughtful. . . . I may not turn the mower aside when I encounter the next thistly, pod-bearing stem. But I will stop, stoop and take a closer look.” (Dallas Morning News)

“A jaunty chronicle of botany and history that ventures from the first farm fields of Mesopotamia to the broken asphalt of our modern cities.” (Charleston Post & Courier)

“A lyrical, wise, witty, intimate musing about garden outcasts—and about us, too.” (Minneapolis Star Tribune)

“As witty and lively as it is comprehensive. . . . A stimulating sojourn with the world’s most fascinating and ingenious plants.” (Portsmouth Herald)

Présentation de l'éditeur

“[A] witty and beguiling meditation on weeds and their wily ways….You will never look at a weed, or flourish a garden fork, in the same way again.”
—Richard Holmes, author of The Age of Wonder

“In this fascinating, richly detailed book, Richard Mabey gives weeds their full due.”
—Carl Zimmer, author of Evolution

Richard Mabey, Great Britain’s Britain’s “greatest living nature writer” (London Times), has written a stirring and passionate defense of nature’s most unloved plants.  Weeds is a fascinating, eye-opening, and vastly entertaining appreciation of the natural world’s unappreciated wildflowers that will appeal to fans of David Attenborough, Robert Sullivan’s Rats, Amy Stewart’s Wicked Plants, and to armchair gardeners, horticulturists, green-thumbs, all those who stop to smell the flowers.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Ecco
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0062065467
• ISBN 13: 9780062065469
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 336