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Flora Mirabilis: How Plants Shaped World Knowledge, Health, Wealth, and Beauty
Flora Mirabilis is a sumptuously designed showcase of superb illustrations paired with fascinating stories of botanical exploration and trade through the ages. A collaboration between National Geographic and the world-renowned Missouri Botanical Garden, this book will prove an evergreen source of delight, not just for gardeners and flower aficionados, but for anyone intere...more
Hardcover, 256 pages
Published
October 20th 2009
by National Geographic
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Like Botany of Desire with more history and more art, this book, a joint effort of National Geo and MoBot (the Missouri Botanical Garden, one of the most emotionally effective and visually impressive bot gardens I've ever visited, with a spectacular library and important ongoing research), is both interesting to read and gorgeous to look at. You might not expect so many famous names and drug references in a book about botany. Or you might, if you read a lot of botany. Botany is packed with stori...more
Fascinating details and beautiful illustrations about the history of plants. Yeah, I know, sounds dry, but it isn't Put out by National Geographic and Mo. Botanical Garden so it's the best of both worlds. Should be in every library! Makes a great gift for anyone with an interest in plants and history. Normally I don't read nonfiction but this is just too good.
Beautifully illustrated compendium on the plants that we have been using for millennia. Includes basic histories, timelines and lots and lots of illustrations. Great resource with interesting research.
Five stars just for the illustrations. Lots of interesting plant factoids.
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