Green Inheritance
Saving the Plants of the World
3rd Edition
Published on 15. October 2005
Book
Hardback
192 pages
978-1-85675-201-5 (ISBN)
Description
Shows how rewarding our green inheritance is - before it is too late and we destroy our life-support system Highlights a deepening concern about the destruction that threatens our plant heritage Demonstrates the wonder and worth of plants and their great importance and potential - plants provide us with power - food, energy, medication and oxygen levels Explains why our plants cannot take any more punishment and how those that remain can be saved Actively campaigns the need to halt the devastation on our plant system and subsequently the animal kingdom
Shows how rewarding our green inheritance is - before it is too late and we destroy our life-support system Highlights a deepening concern about the destruction that threatens our plant heritage Demonstrates the wonder and worth of plants and their great importance and potential - plants provide us with power - food, energy, medication and oxygen levels Explains why our plants cannot take any more punishment and how those that remain can be saved Actively campaigns the need to halt the devastation on our plant system and subsequently the animal kingdom
Shows how rewarding our green inheritance is - before it is too late and we destroy our life-support system Highlights a deepening concern about the destruction that threatens our plant heritage Demonstrates the wonder and worth of plants and their great importance and potential - plants provide us with power - food, energy, medication and oxygen levels Explains why our plants cannot take any more punishment and how those that remain can be saved Actively campaigns the need to halt the devastation on our plant system and subsequently the animal kingdom
More details
Edition
3rd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Octopus Publishing Group
Edition type
Revised edition
Product notice
With printed dust jacket
Illustrations
270 colour illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 272 mm
Width: 236 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
1169 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85675-201-5 (9781856752015)
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Other editions
Previous edition
Book
02/1991
2nd Edition
Gaia Books Ltd
€38.56
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ANTHONY HUXLEY'S CONSUMING INTEREST IN WILD PLANTS AND WILD PLACES HAS TAKEN HIM ALL OVER THE WORLD. HIS MANY PUBLICATIONS - THIS IS HIS 32ND BOOK - AND HORTICULTUREAL JOURNALISM HAS MADE HIM A HOUSEHOLD NAME AS A BOTANIST AND GARDENING AUTHORITY. HE IS A MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY WHICH HAS AWARDED HIM ITS HIGHEST ACCOLADE, THE VICTORIAN MEDAL OF HONOUR.
ANTHONY HUXLEY'S CONSUMING INTEREST IN WILD PLANTS AND WILD PLACES HAS TAKEN HIM ALL OVER THE WORLD. HIS MANY PUBLICATIONS - THIS IS HIS 32ND BOOK - AND HORTICULTUREAL JOURNALISM HAS MADE HIM A HOUSEHOLD NAME AS A BOTANIST AND GARDENING AUTHORITY. HE IS A MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY WHICH HAS AWARDED HIM ITS HIGHEST ACCOLADE, THE VICTORIAN MEDAL OF HONOUR.
ANTHONY HUXLEY'S CONSUMING INTEREST IN WILD PLANTS AND WILD PLACES HAS TAKEN HIM ALL OVER THE WORLD. HIS MANY PUBLICATIONS - THIS IS HIS 32ND BOOK - AND HORTICULTUREAL JOURNALISM HAS MADE HIM A HOUSEHOLD NAME AS A BOTANIST AND GARDENING AUTHORITY. HE IS A MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY WHICH HAS AWARDED HIM ITS HIGHEST ACCOLADE, THE VICTORIAN MEDAL OF HONOUR.
Content
Foreword by David Attenborough; Chapter 1: The Green inheritance; Chapter 2: Guardians of the Environment; Chapter 3: Green Travellers; Chapter 4: Our Daily Bread; Chapter 5: The Spice of Life; Chapter 6: Green Wealth; Chapter 7: Green Medicine; Chapter 8: Objects of Beauty; Chapter 9: Plants in Society; Chapter 10: Improving the Resources; Chapter 11: Saving the Planets that Save Us.