Fencing Paradise
The Uses And Abuses Of Plants
From the beginning human beings have made use of plants - to provide food, to build shelters, to trade, or to tell stories about ourselves in which plants have only a minor role. Perhaps enough is enough? Are we starting to believe that the domestication of plants - the 'fencing of paradise' - is a solution for the world's ills? Do we imagine that a tamed version of nature could be a substitute for the vanishing wild places of the planet?Richard Mabey sets out to explore our landscape not as a 'sever scientist' but as an 'interpreter' or 'messenger', seeing nature on its own terms, rather than as a means to some human end. Mischievously s…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4481-2509-8
- EAN: 9781448125098
- Produktnummer: 14341447
- Verlag: Transworld Publishers
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'152 KB
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Richard Mabey
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