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The Big, Bad Book of Botany

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by Michael Largo

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David Attenborough meets Lemony Snicket in , Michael Largo's entertaining and enlightening one-of-a-kind compendium of the world's most amazing and bizarre plants, their history, and their lore. introduces a world of wild, wonderful, and weird plants. Some are so rare, they were once more valuable than gold. Some found in ancient mythology hold magical abilities, including the power to turn a person to stone. Others have been used by assassins to kill kings, and sorcerers to revive the dead. Here, too, is vegetation with astonishing properties to cure and heal, many of which have long since been lost with the advent of modern medicine. Organized alphabetically, 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. Largo takes you through the history of vegetables and fruits and their astonishing agricultural evolution. Throughout, he reveals a astonishing facts, from where the world's first tree grew to whether plants are telepathic. Featuring more than 150 photographs and illustrations, is a fascinating, fun A-to-Z encyclopedia for all ages that will transform the way we look at the natural world.
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  • Jumlah Halaman

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    Penerbit

    Harper Collins

  • Tanggal Terbit

    27 Oct, 2015

    Penulis
    Michael Largo
  • Bahasa

    Indonesia

    ISBN

    SCOOPG88335

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