书名：Weeds: The Story of Outlaw Plants杂草的故事

作者：Richard Mabey 

出版社名称：Profile Books 

出版时间：2012 

语种：英语 

ISBN：9781846680816 

商品尺寸：12.9 x 2 x 19.8 cm 

包装：平装 

页数：336（以实物为准）一部跨越园艺、文学、历史的典范之作！

英国当代伟大的博物学作家Richard Mabey经典作品

“我们如何、为何将何处的植物定性为不受欢迎的杂草，正是我们不断探寻如何界定自然与文化、野生与驯养的过程的一部分。而这些界限的聪明与宽容程度，将决定这个星球上大部分绿色植物的角色。” 杂草是某种类型的植物还是一种人类的思维？它们是生物品种还是文化的产物？它们为何存在？如果没有它们，世界将会怎样？英国博物学作家理查德•梅比讲述了在人类与自然的抗争过程中，四处流浪的杂草是如何被定义、被诠释、被限制和被不公平地对待，又是如何冲破文明的边界并影响人类对自然的看法。理查德•梅比一方面为自然界不被待见的植物辩护，一方面从历史、小说、诗歌、戏剧和民间故事中钩沉杂草与人类剪不断理还乱的关系。文明背后的野性从未走远，一部立足英国本土的杂草变迁史，却勾勒出全球化视野中一幅包罗万象的野生植物迁徙和狂欢的图景。

Ever since the first human settlements 10,000 years ago, weeds have dogged our footsteps. They are there as the punishment of 'thorns and thistles' in Genesis and , two millennia later, as a symbol of Flanders Field. They are civilisations' familiars, invading farmland and building-sites, war-zones and flower-beds across the globe. Yet living so intimately with us, they have been a blessing too. Weeds were the first crops, the first medicines. Burdock was the inspiration for Velcro. Cow parsley has become the fashionable adornment of Spring weddings. Weaving together the insights of botanists, gardeners, artists and poets with his own life-long fascination, Richard Mabey examines how we have tried to define them, explain their persistence, and draw moral lessons from them. One persons weed is another's wild beauty.

Richard Mabey，英国博物学作家和主持人，致力于探讨自然和文化的关系，20世纪80年代曾任英国自然保护委员会顾问，2011年被选为皇家文学学会会员。他凭借《吉尔伯特•怀特》荣获1986年惠特布雷德传记奖，畅销作品《植物大英百科全书》荣获大英图书奖等多项大奖，《免费的食物》《非正式的乡村》《黑暗中的鸣叫》等著作皆获高度评价。他还是《泰晤士报》《卫报》《独立报》园艺专栏作家，英国广播公司电视系列片《来自乡间的明信片》的总撰稿人和制片人。

Richard Mabey is Britain's foremost nature writer, and the author of Flora Britannica, which won a British Book Award, and Birds Britannica. He has a regular column in BBC Wildlife magazine and has written extensively on nature for the national broadsheets.

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