Xerophile
€ 43,90
Informação do Produto
| ISBN | 9781984859341 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Cactus Store |
| Editora | Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale |
| Formato | Capa mole |
| Número de páginas | 368 |
| Peso (kg) | 1,098 |
| Data de Publicação | 23/11/2021 |
| Preço (iva excl.) | € 41,42 |
| Imposto | € 2,48 |
| Preço (iva inc.) | € 43,90 |
| Disponibilidade | 4 unidades em armazém externo |
Descrição do Produto
An updated edition of the cult classic, featuring stunning archival photographs of hundreds of the rarest and most spectacular plants on Earth, taken by a motley crew of cactus obsessives
“A catalogue of wonders that most of us will never get to see in person.”—The New Yorker
From the people behind Cactus Store comes Xerophile, a photographic collection of these improbable desert wonders in the wild. Drawing on the archives of twenty-five cactus obsessives—from PhD botanist to banker, art teacher to cancer researcher—this revised edition spans eighty years and features new and expanded descriptive notes for all 350+ photos.
Xerophile brings together eighty years’ worth of these explorers’ remarkable images from some of the world’s most remote habitats: a peculiar two-leaved plant that lives for millennia in the deserts of Namibia; succulents whose poisonous sap is used by hunters to fell large game in Angola; and cactus that live on snow-covered mountains in Bolivia, sink below ground level to survive droughts in Mexico, are pollinated by bats in Brazil, and grow in pure lava fields of the Galápagos Islands.