Mike Shanahan: 2 books
Gods, Wasps and Stranglers
The Secret History and Redemptive Future of Fig Trees
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Over millions of years, fig trees have shaped our world, influenced our evolution, nourished our bodies and fed our imaginations. And as author and ecologist Mike Shanahan proclaims, “The best could be yet to come.”
Gods, Wasps and Stranglers weaves together the mythology, history and ecology...
by Mike Shanahan
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
The book found success in the US in an edition published by Chelsea Green under the title Gods, Wasps and Stranglers: it was featured in The New Yorker.
For fans of Anna Pavord's The Tulip, Mark Kurlansky's *Cod *and Salt, Yuval Noah Harari's *Sapiens *and Marcus Chown's What a Wonderful World.
Features twenty original illustrations hand-drawn by the author.