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Botanic Gardens: Modern Day Arks

Door Sara Oldfield

Categorie
Tuin & Tuinieren
Boeknummer
#334283-KL27
Titel
Botanic Gardens: Modern Day Arks
Auteur
Oldfield, Sara
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
London etc. : New Holland Publishers
Jaar van uitgave
2010
ISBN10
1847735193
ISBN13
9781847735195
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original glazed pictorial boards in matching dust jacket, decorated endpapers, illustrated with numerous (full page) colour photographs, 4to.
Samenvatting

All life depends on plants but they are often taken for granted in our everyday lives. It is easy to ignore the fact that we are facing a crisis, with scientists estimating that one third of all flowering plant species are threatened with extinction. Modern Day Arks considers the essential conservation role of botanic gardens. Chapters feature gardens from around the world, including the UK, US, Australia, Germany, Turkey, Uganda, South Africa, Mexico, Brazil and China, revealing how a global network is striving to save our botanical heritage. Comments and photographs from the botanists involved lend an important personal angle to the text and reveal the important but little-known work that goes on behind the scenes of these beautiful gardens. In this elegant and engaging book, Sara Oldf... (Lees verder)ield shows how botanic gardens truly are 'modern day arks' safeguarding species and saving resources on which we may soon depend. It is to be published in 2010, a year that sees the culmination of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation.
Pagina's
240
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 15,00

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