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Botanical Revelation - European encounters with Australian plants before Darwin (Hardcover)
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Botanical Revelation - European encounters with Australian plants before Darwin (Hardcover)
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One of Gardens Illustrated's Best Books of 2020 Acclaimed author
David Mabberley provides a ground-breaking analysis of early
European understanding of Australia's lora. Combining science,
horticulture, art and economics, this lavishly illustrated book -
with many never before-published images - reveals the motives and
complex networks that led to the international spread of knowledge
and cultivation of hundreds of Australian plants in Europe in the
late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.Based on the superb
Peter Crossing Collection, Botanical Revelation documents a
revolutionary phase in the understanding of Australia's flora and
science more generally. Features: David Mabberley is one of the
world's foremost botanical scholarsof early colonial Australia The
detailed story of early European encounters with Australianplants
is told here for the first time A beautifully designed and produced
book packed with stunningillustrations, many never before published
Uses a comprehensive private library - the Peter Crossing
Collection-devoted to the early encountering, documenting and
illustratingof Australian plants by Europeans before Darwin came
here in1836 - to tell a fascinating story
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