Richard Mabey

First published in Great Britain in 2015 under the title: The cabaret of plants: botany and the imagination.

Forty Thousand Years of Plant Life and the Human Imagination

The Cabaret of Plants

Wynter

Can I possibly need more research on the subject after reading Mabey's wonderful book? This is a comprehensive and very enjoyable work on various species of plants and their relationship with mankind. If you would like to learn which trees possessed mystical characteristics for our ancestors, and which were suspected of having wondrous medicinal properties, this is great place to start. If you need to check a phrase "floral gangbang" off your literary bucket list, look no further. Lovely book that pays tribute to nature in all its weird, creative, and shameless glory.

The Cabaret of Plants Forty Thousand Years of Plant Life and the Human Imagination

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