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Botanical Revelation: European encounters with Australian plants before Darwin
David J. Mabberley
Botanical Revelation: European encounters with Australian plants before Darwin
David J. Mabberley
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.
384 pages
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | December 1, 2019 |
ISBN13 | 9781742236476 |
Publishers | NewSouth Publishing |
Pages | 384 |
Dimensions | 310 × 251 × 40 mm · 2.83 kg |