Trees category: 526 books
Looking for Longleaf
The Fall and Rise of an American Forest
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
Covering 92 million acres from Virginia to Texas, the longleaf pine ecosystem was, in its prime, one of the most extensive and biologically diverse ecosystems in North America. Today these magnificent forests have declined to a fraction of their original extent, threatening such species as the gopher...
Unbowed
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2008
In Unbowed, Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai recounts her extraordinary journey from her childhood in rural Kenya to the world stage. When Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement in 1977, she began a vital poor people’s environmental movement, focused on the empowerment of women, that soon spread...
Natural Selection
a year in the garden
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
"When it sings, a garden will have the power to transport and to lead you to a place that is magical. It is an oasis for creation, available to anyone with a little space and the compunction to get their hands dirty."
In Natural Selection, Dan Pearson draws on ten years of his Observer...
Ginkgo
The Tree That Time Forgot
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Perhaps the world’s most distinctive tree, ginkgo has remained stubbornly unchanged for more than two hundred million years. A living link to the age of dinosaurs, it survived the great ice ages as a relic in China, but it earned its reprieve when people first found it useful about a thousand years...
by John Manning
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2011
Sasol First Field Guide to Wild Flowers of Southern Africa provides fascinating insight into the wild flowers of the region. Through full-colour photographs and easy-to-read text, the beginner and budding naturalist will be able to identify the more common wild flowers that grow in southern Africa, discover where they are found, and learn about their unique features.
by John Manning
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2011
Sasol First Field Guide to Succulents of Southern Africa is a fascinating guide to the succulents of the region. Full-colour photographs, distribution maps and easy-to-read text will help the beginner and budding naturalist to identify the more common succulents found in southern Africa, discover where they occur and learn about their unique features.
The Reason for Flowers
Their History, Culture, Biology, and How They Change Our Lives
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
“Fascinating...Buchmann’s knowledge and enthusiasm jump off the page.” —The Wall Street Journal
“An extraordinarily good book.” —Edward O. Wilson
The lively and definitive story of the beauty, sexuality, lore, economics, and ecology of the world ’s flowers, written by...
The Sweetness of a Simple Life
Tips for Healthier, Happier and Kinder Living Gleaned from the Wisdom and Science of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
The author of The Global Forest--an international bestseller and a classic upon publication, beloved by readers around the world--gives us her tips and advice for achieving better health and peace of mind, with frugality, simplicity and pleasure not far behind.
In The Sweetness of...
Chasing the Ghost
My Search for all the Wild Flowers of Britain
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
**ONE OF THE GUARDIAN’S BEST BOOKS OF 2018**
Join renowned naturalist Peter Marren on an exciting quest to see every species of wild plant native to Britain.
The mysterious Ghost Orchid blooms in near darkness among rotting leaves on the forest floor. It blends into the background...
by Department of the Army
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
In a situation where survival is at stake, plants can provide crucial food and medicine. Their safe usage requires absolutely positive identification, knowing how to prepare them for eating, and a solid awareness of any dangerous properties they might have. Familiarity with the botanical structures...
Heritage Apples
A New Sensation
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Heritage Apples travels far beyond the grocery store of today to savor the apples of the past. These are the apple varieties—the Gravensteins, the Kings, the red-fleshed Pink Pearl—that link us to history, but through food movements and taste preferences are remerging as the fruit of the future....
by Andrew Henderson
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2009
Southern Asia is a vast and ecologically diverse region that extends from the deserts of Afghanistan to the rainforests of Thailand, and is home to a marvelously rich palm flora. Palms of Southern Asia is the only complete field guide to the 43 genera and 352 species of palms and rattans that occur...
by Brian Thomas, Denis J Murphy, Brian G Murray
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2003
A multi-faceted reference work, the Encyclopedia of Applied Plant Sciences addresses the core knowledge, theories, and techniques employed by plant scientists, while also concentrating on applications of these in research and in industry. Plants influence all our lives as sources of sustenance, fuel...
In Praise of Poison Ivy
The Secret Virtues, Astonishing History, and Dangerous Lore of the World's Most Hated Plant
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Deadly. Powerful. Beautiful. The much-hated plant called poison ivy is all of these—and more.
Poison ivy has long irritated humans, but the astounding paradox is that poison ivy is a plant of immense ecological value. In Praise of Poison Ivy explores the vices and virtues of a plant with a dramatic...