Flora Europaea
by Tutin, Thomas Gaskell, Ferguson, I.K., (Ian Keith), Ball, P.W, Chater, A.O
"Translated into Anglo-Saxon around the year 1000, a collection of medicinal remedies known as the Old English Herbarium enjoyed wide popularity throughout Western Europe from the fifth century well into the Renaissance. Its history was later abandoned in the mid-nineteenth cent…
"Take a few chapters from a John le Carre spy thriller, add a hefty dose of exotic travelogue, blend with one of the best books on bulb growing ever written, and you've got Buried Treasures. Since launching his first international mail-order catalog in 1991, Latvian nurseryman J…
"This book is an encyclopedic, two-part introduction to the edible plants of China. Part I introduces the cultural aspects of Chinese food plants and the spread of Chinese culinary culture to the world. It also describes how botanical and cultural information was acquired, what …