The worlds most fascinating flora kindle edition by largo, michael. Im a plant biology student, but enjoy pop science books about plants. To make matters worse there is no index to scientific names. The big, bad book of botany book midcontinent public. Extremely bitter in both taste and odor, wormwood became such a widely recognized synonym for something nasty, unpleasant, and even poisonous that the bible refers to it that way more than a dozen times.
The big, bad book of botany, the worlds most fascinating flora. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read the big, bad book of botany. The worlds wildest collection of animal knowledge and lore. The worlds most fascinating flora by michael largo 2014 english epub. The big, bad book of botany michael largo paperback.
Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading the big, bad book of. Out now from william morrow, an imprint of harpercollins publishers. Some found in ancient mythology hold mag david attenborough meets lemony snicket in michael largos entertaining and enlightening oneofakind compendium of the worlds most amazing and bizarre plants. Are there any science fiction books about plants or botany. In a quirky, alphabetical collection of folklore, traditional botany, growing suggestions, and modern science and nutrition, largo the big bad book of beasts. Buy the big, bad book of botany from summerfield books. Some are so rare, they were once more valuable than gold. Tune in to hear stories from the author of the big, bad book of botany.
See more ideas about botany, plant science and chalkboard drawings. The worlds most fascinating flora ebook written by michael largo. The big, bad book of botany introduces a world of wild, wonderful, and weird plants. The big, bad book of botany wisconsin public radio. But if the big, bad book of botany had come my way, i would have giggled and goggled at its showy display of wacky plant lore. The world of plants is more fascinating and bizarre than you might imagine.
Some found in ancient mythology hold magical abilities, including the power to turn a person to stone. The big, bad book of botany holds the incredible answers to all of these. Book cover of michael largo the big, bad book of botany. The worlds most fascinating flora by michael largo. From absinthe to zubrowka a popular ingredient in polish vodkas, awardwinning author michael largo takes you through the historical and agricultural evolution of hundreds of plant species, revealing astonishing facts along the way. Botany books goodreads meet your next favorite book. David attenborough meets lemony snicket in the big bad book of botany, michael largos entertaining and enlightening oneofakind compendium of the worlds most amazing and bizarre plants, their history, and their lore. Michael largo has written several books that i want to read, not the least of which is one about how famous people died. The big, bad book of botany by michael largo is an excellent survey of many important plants. Michael largo, author of the big bad book of beasts and other books mostly. The american gardeneran entertaining and enlightening compendium of the worlds most amazing and bizarre plants, revealing their secrets, history, and lorewhat happens when you give a plant a polygraph test. Pdf the big bad book of botany download full pdf book. See more ideas about botany books, botany and botanical illustration.
This is not a text book for a serious student of botany, but is a survey of plants, their uses, and biology for the lay gardener or curious lay person. In the book and tv series the expanse, one of the emergent main characters is a botanist named praxidike meng or praxis. The author succeeds admirably in his stated intent to provide a serendipitous mix of fascinating folklore of the past, with descriptions, life cycles, advice on cultivation, and the benefits these plants provide. Along ancient dirt roads and on the hillsides of england, in most of europe, the middle east, and in fact all the way to the edge of asia, a brilliantly green, pointedleaf plant once grew in abundance. Botany was a natural companion to largos the big bad book of beasts, devoted to all sorts of scary animals, big and small. However, i ended up buying this book first, because i.
Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. David attenborough meets lemony snicket in the big, bad book of botany, michael largos entertaining and enlightening oneofakind compendium of the worlds most amazing and bizarre plants, their history, and their lore. Organized alphabetically, the big, bad book of botany combines the latest in biological information with bizarre facts about the plant kingdoms oddest members, including a species that is more poisonous than a cobra and a prehistoric plant that actually walked. It is the branch of biology which study of fruits and flowering plants are all there biochemical processes, structures, classification, evolution, physiology and the diseases when plants and trees interact with environment. If botany was the scripture of this religion, then horticulture was its form of worship. In a quirky, alphabetical collection of folklore, traditional botany, growing suggestions, and modern science and nutrition, largo the big bad book of beasts shares delight in the weird and wonderfu. The big, bad book of botany by michael largo hallucinogenic flowers are found in neanderthal graves, bamboo is a grass that sometimes blooms only every 65 or 120 years, and other. The big, bad book of botany ebook by michael largo. He is a botanist that along with his daughter gets caught up in the ensuing drama, by being in the wrong place at the wron. For hundreds of years, the most popular books in the western world next to the bible were bestiaries, fanciful encyclopedias collecting. Others have been used by assassins to kill kings, and sorcerers to revive the dead.
A third of the waters became wormwood, and many people died from the water. From absinthe to zubrowka a popular ingredient in polish vodkas, awardwinning author toggle navigation. Lots of pictures and fun facts about plants without going too crazy on the science behind it, i loved it to learn cool facts about random plants that make up household products. He invites listeners to visit his website at michael. Buy the ebook the big, bad book of botany, the worlds most fascinating flora by.
The big, bad book of botany by michael largo waterstones. The big, bad book of botany by michael largo 2014, paperback. It sounds rather irreverent and morbid, which is rather my style when it comes to celebrities. Botany is the fundamental of plants life science from seed to a giant tree. Organized alphabetically, the big, bad book of botany combines the latest in biological information with bizarre facts about the plant kingdom s oddest members, including a species that is more poisonous than a cobra and a prehistoric plant that actually walked. The big, bad book of botany the worlds most fascinating flora book. The big, bad book of botany captures secret lives of.
330 1416 38 852 987 256 1354 888 182 1025 1010 11 92 1152 1119 1446 288 705 342 467 587 824 861 1095 645 716 204 271 230 665 1209