In The Cabaret of Plants, Mabey explores the plant species which
have challenged our imaginations, awoken our wonder, and upturned
our ideas about history, science, beauty and belief. Picked from
every walk of life, they encompass crops, weeds, medicines,
religious gathering-places and a water lily named after a queen.
Beginning with pagan cults and creation myths, the cultural
significance of plants has burst upwards, sprouting into forms as
diverse as the panacea (the cure-all plant ginseng, a single root
of which can cost up to $10,000), Newton's apple, the African
'vegetable elephant' or boabab - and the mystical, night-flowering
Amazonian cactus, the moonflower. Ranging widely across science,
art and cultural history, poetry and personal experience, Mabey
puts plants centre stage, and reveals a true botanical cabaret, a
world of tricksters, shape-shifters and inspired problem-solvers,
as well as an enthralled audience of romantics, eccentric amateur
scientists and transgressive artists. The Cabaret of Plants
celebrates the idea that plants are not simply 'the furniture of
the planet', but vital, inventive, individual beings worthy of
respect - and that to understand this may be the best way of
preserving life together on Earth.
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