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Around the World in 80 Plants

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She graduated with a DSAA in Visual Communication from Olivier de Serres in Paris, and set up her studio after graduating from Central Saint Martins in London with an MA in Communication Design. Apart from telling us all about the plant's quirks, Drori also sometimes adds a slightly cynical or critical note about humans and the way we treat or have been treating the plants in question, not in the least because that behaviour threatens our own lives, or all life on our precious planet.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.I also really appreciated how Drori, blended biology, culture and wit in telling the often complex stories of the plants. For the record, I am a professional botanist, but I don't mind a little whimsy, love art and history, but I can't stand scientific inaccuracies (unless it is part of fiction, of course). With the perfect combination of history, biology and geography; I now feel totally at ease spewing brand new facts about plants I seen all my live but never thought to understand. If you are a botanist, or someone that is interested in the science of botany, then I suggest to pick up a different book. Yes, the factual science portion is in here, complete with Latin names and etymology and words like "stamen" and "inflorescence" and even the occasional "secretions.

The 1 or 2 page stories about each plant are very accessible, interesting and intriguing, telling the stories about the history of the plant, where it is found and why it has evolved to be a certain way. You will learn so much and walks in the countryside will never quite be the same - who knew nettles were males and female and so important for wildlife? The descriptions are written with such passion and beauty, brief but densely packed with information about the plant's history, as well as things like relevance to science and art, or just quirky anecdotes. Monty Don, Author and Broadcaster ~‘I have always believed the three Ps – Plants, People and Places – offered an unending source of stories worth the telling and this book proves the point. US manufacturers are investigating and apparently there are dandelion latex tires available in Europe.

Jonathan Drori] comes to this book with a lifetime of experience and a passion for talking about - and encouraging the preservation of - plants, trees, insects and birds. Soybeans are one of the most nutritious plant foods, rich in edible oil and, even by the standards of legumes, an excellent source of protein, although they are not to be eaten raw, as they contain substances that interfere with our digestion. Her work is mainly handcrafted from drawing to screenprinting which allows her to create large scale compositions, architectural portraits of her favourite places and exploring their past and present lives. Not only a key component in the food chain but also carbon sequestration in amounts far beyond what the land-based plants can provide.

Some of the unusual and strange facts will be completely new and fascinating to even very expert plants people. The entries for every plant not only give the general information like the physical description but also historical context and interesting tidbits about each respective plant about its relationship with humans. Also, this book is so good that I bought myself a copy to have halfway through reading my copy from the library.I bought this as a Christmas Gift for my mum who is crazy about Candles, Flowers, Smellies and Chocolates. Jonathan Drori CBE is a Trustee of The Eden Project and Cambridge Science Centre, an Ambassador for the WWF, and was for nine years a Trustee of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and The Woodland Trust. She has worked with international fashion houses, museums and Historic Royal Palaces and The Palace of Versailles. I definitely love having these three books in my collection (the 3rd one, the one about birds, wasn't written by this author but was produced in the same way by the publisher so I consider them a series) and hope there will be more (about other animal families, for example). She works within the field of editorial design and illustration for books and magazines, mainly, but also for the fashion industry and occasionally realising murals and exhibition spaces.

Did you know that all bamboo in the world flowers simultaneously no matter where they are and we STILL have no idea why? It is a credit to his skill and dedication that every fact-filled sentence is rich in information about each chosen plant, be it ethnobotanical, economic, folklore, myth, history, religion, culinary or etymology - not a word is wasted.Ik kijk nu vol bewondering naar de ogenschijnlijk eenvoudige paardenbloem (Taraxacum officinale) die in Estland wordt gevierd met een heus paardenbloemenfestival.

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