Flora Britannica - Couverture souple

Mabey, Richard

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0701167319 ISBN 13 : 9780701167318

Editeur : Chatto & Windus, 1998

Synopsis

Available for the first time, a smaller, abridged edition of FLORA BRITANNICA Illustrated throughout in colour, and organised thermatically rather than botanically, THE CONCISE makes available for the first time, at an affordable price, the fruits of five years of painstaking research. Like FLORA BRITANNICA, this selection includes personal anecdotes, observations and regional knowledge of people from all over Britain.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Richard Mabey is the father figure of modern nature writing in the UK. Since 1972 he has written some 40 influential books, including the prize-winning Nature Cure and Gilbert White: a Biography, and has edited both Birds Britannica and Bugs Britannica. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Vice-President of the Open Spaces Society.

He spent the first half of his life amongst the Chiltern beechwoods, and now lives in Norfolk in a house surrounded by ash trees.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Illustrated throughout in colour, and organised thermatically rather than botanically, THE CONCISE makes available for the first time, at an affordable price, the fruits of five years of painstaking research. Like FLORA BRITANNICA, this selection includes personal anecdotes, observations and regional knowledge of people from all over Britain.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Chatto & Windus
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0701167319
• ISBN 13: 9780701167318
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible