The Plant Messiah: Adventures in Search of the World’s Rarest Species
Autor Carlos Magdalenaen Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 apr 2018
From the planet's tiniest waterlily - the Nymphaea thermarum - to Huarango trees with roots over 50 metres long, Carlos has a miraculous ability to bring breathtakingly beautiful plants back from the brink of extinction. He has travelled to the most remote and dangerous parts of the world - from the mountains of Peru to isolated Indian Ocean islands to the deepest Australian outback - in search of the rarest exotic species. Then, back in the Tropical Nursery at Kew, he uses pioneering, left-field techniques to help them grow.
Now he's here to spread the gospel.The Plant Messiahis the inspirational story of a man who has devoted - and risked - his life to save incredible species, all in the name of making this Earth a greener and happier place. Amen to that.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780241979297
ISBN-10: 0241979293
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 128 x 198 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0241979293
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 128 x 198 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Carlos Magdalena is Botanical Horticulturist in the Tropical Nursery at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, an international lecturer, and Chairman of the International Waterlily & Water Gardens Society. He is renowned for his unique skills as a plant propagator who is saving the world's rarest plants.
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Impressive, gripping and important. . . Some 30,000 plants have recorded uses for humans. Most people, the messiah preaches, are blind to these everyday miracles. This book will teach them to see
For anyone who might have considered plants dull stuff, Mr. Magdalena delivers a thrilling and inspirational account of adventures in the botanical world.
In a world whose ecology is changing so fast, only a special kind of obsessive would concern himself with saving endangered plant species. That's Magdalena... who recounts adventures that have taken him from the Amazon to the jungles of Mauritius on a quest to preserve as much flora as he can.
An engaging piece of work
Eye-popping...The Plant Messiahreads like a detective novel. [This] isa thrillingly uplifting book. There is a beguiling energy to his prose that clearly he has in person
Botany, on its face, doesn't sound particularly thrilling. This book will change your mind
An entertaining, planterly romparound the world and a glimpse inside one of the world's great botanical institutions from this Kew botanist
[I]t is fascinating to follow Magdalena as he travels from remote Australian billabongs full of rare water lilies to the dry forests of western Peru, where the last gnarled huarango trees grow in the shadow of the Andes. But the greater accomplishment ofThe Plant Messiahis the compelling case that Magdalena makes from caring about plants in general.
Carlos Magdalena is Kew's codebreaker
He has the uncanny ability to bring plants back from the brink of extinction
Carlos is an inspiration to me. He's the perfect spokesperson for the plants of the world
Carlos has been able to achieve things with plants that no one else can do
Impressive, gripping and important. . . Some 30,000 plants have recorded uses for humans. Most people, the messiah preaches, are blind to these everyday miracles. This book will teach them to see
For anyone who might have considered plants dull stuff, Mr. Magdalena delivers a thrilling and inspirational account of adventures in the botanical world.
In a world whose ecology is changing so fast, only a special kind of obsessive would concern himself with saving endangered plant species. That's Magdalena... who recounts adventures that have taken him from the Amazon to the jungles of Mauritius on a quest to preserve as much flora as he can.
An engaging piece of work
Eye-popping...The Plant Messiahreads like a detective novel. [This] isa thrillingly uplifting book. There is a beguiling energy to his prose that clearly he has in person
Botany, on its face, doesn't sound particularly thrilling. This book will change your mind
An entertaining, planterly romparound the world and a glimpse inside one of the world's great botanical institutions from this Kew botanist
[I]t is fascinating to follow Magdalena as he travels from remote Australian billabongs full of rare water lilies to the dry forests of western Peru, where the last gnarled huarango trees grow in the shadow of the Andes. But the greater accomplishment ofThe Plant Messiahis the compelling case that Magdalena makes from caring about plants in general.
Carlos Magdalena is Kew's codebreaker
He has the uncanny ability to bring plants back from the brink of extinction
Carlos is an inspiration to me. He's the perfect spokesperson for the plants of the world
Carlos has been able to achieve things with plants that no one else can do