Flora: An Artistic Voyage Through the World of Plants

基本信息

Format:Hardback 224 pages

Publisher:The Natural History Museum

Imprint:The Natural History Museum

ISBN:9780565093983

Published:22 Sep 2016

Weight:2132g

Dimensions:331 x 274 x 40 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

本书《植物志》包含20篇关于花卉史的的散文，这些花包括了仙人掌、水仙、鸢尾、洋玉兰、罂粟、玫瑰、郁金香与睡莲。本书解释了植物为了生存在恶劣的栖地，如何做出各种适应方式；探险家如何勇敢地面对疫病、对抗奴隶贩卖者、丛林还有各种不同的危险，只为了收集植物，到了现在，它们已成为住家庭园常见的植物。本书还收录有160幅美丽无比的插画，这些皆来自伦敦自然史博物馆所典藏的植物绘画。不仅如此，这本盒装书，还附有36张可以裱框的版画，是园艺爱好者必定想收藏的礼物书。

This box set tracks the history of key plant families from around the world, detailing the journeys of some plants now more commonly found in the back garden.

Flora introduces the botanists that braved disease, war, and other dangers to bring back the range of plants that we now see on a daily basis. This box set also documents the remarkable behaviours that plants have adapted to survive in hostile and changing habitats.

With more than 20 essays and 160 illustrations, this box set includes detailed descriptions of different specimens of plants, and includes information on regions of cultivation and folklore.

Containing hundreds of illustrations from original botanical paintings held at the Natural History Museum, this box set is visually stunning and informative. Coming complete with 36 framable prints, this book would make a wonderful gift for any horticultural enthusiast.

作者简介

With more than 70 million specimens, the Museum is home to the largest and most important natural history collections in the world.The scope of the specimens is simply vast including the ill-fated dodo, meteorites from Mars and a full-size blue whale skeleton. The collections cover almost all groups of animals, plants, minerals and fossils ranging from cells on slides to whole animals preserved in alcohol.The Library of the Museum is a repository for the largest collection of natural history literature in the world. It holds half a million artworks, comprising one of Britain's biggest art collections, and over one million books, including rare, richly illustrated antique volumes.