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Colombia, Its Present State - in Respect of Climate, Soil, Productions, Population, Government, Commerce, Revenue, Manufactures, Arts, Literature, Manners, Education, and Inducements to Emigration; With Itineraries, Partly from Spanish Surveys, Partly from (Paperback)
Francis Hall
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R404
Discovery Miles 4 040
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Colombia - Its Present State, in Respect of Climate, Soil, Productions, Population, Government, Commerce, Revenue, Manufactures, Arts, Literature, Manners, Education, and Inducements to Emigration: With an Original Map; and Itineraries, Partly from Spanish (Paperback)
Francis Hall
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R446
Discovery Miles 4 460
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Trees (Hardcover)
Bruce Albert, Francis Halle, Stefano Mancuso
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R1,414
R1,095
Discovery Miles 10 950
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Accompanies an exhibition at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemparain offering artistic and scientific visions on trees
Omnipresent and essential to life, trees have been underestimated by biologists. But in recent years, they have been the subject of scientific discoveries that have allowed us to see these oldest and largest members of the community of living beings in a new light. Capable of sensory perception, showing complex communication skills, living in symbiosis with many other species and influencing the climate, trees are equipped with unexpected faculties whose discovery confirms what indigenous, traditional and local communities had long acknowledged.
Featuring works by contemporary artists including forest people, scientific imagery, films, photographs and sound installations, the exhibition at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, strives to highlight the beauty, ingenuity and biological richness of trees, allowing us to see and hear these impressive protagonists of the living world that now find themselves also under increasing threat. Through paintings, drawings, photographs, scientific images, maps and texts by specialists, the catalogue published to accompany the exhibition invites the reader to dive into the fascinating and beautiful world of trees.
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Colombia - Its Present State, in Respect of Climate, Soil, Productions, Population, Government, Commerce, Revenue, Manufactures, Arts, Literature, Manners, Education, and Inducements to Emigration. With Itineraries (Hardcover)
Francis Hall
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R849
Discovery Miles 8 490
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Colombia - Its Present State, in Respect of Climate, Soil, Productions, Population, Government, Commerce, Revenue, Manufactures, Arts, Literature, Manners, Education, and Inducements to Emigration. With Itineraries (Paperback)
Francis Hall
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R504
Discovery Miles 5 040
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Atlas of Poetic Botany (Hardcover)
Francis Halle; As told to Eliane Patriarca; Translated by Erik Butler
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R715
R534
Discovery Miles 5 340
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Botanical encounters in the rainforest: trees that walk, a leaf as
big as an awning, a plant that dances. This Atlas invites the
reader to tour the farthest reaches of the rainforest in search of
exotic-poetic-plant life. Guided in these botanical encounters by
Francis Halle, who has spent forty years in pursuit of the strange
and beautiful plant specimens of the rainforest, the reader
discovers a plant with just one solitary, monumental leaf; an
invasive hyacinth; a tree that walks; a parasitic laurel; and a
dancing vine. Further explorations reveal the Rafflesia arnoldii,
the biggest flower in the world, with a crown of stamens and
pistils the color of rotten meat that exude the stench of garbage
in the summer sun; underground trees with leaves that form a carpet
on the ground above them; and the biggest tree in Africa, which can
reach seventy meters (more tha 200 feet) in height, with a
four-meter (about 13 feet) diameter. Halle's drawings, many in
color, provide a witty accompaniment. Like any good tour guide,
Halle tells stories to illustrate his facts. Readers learn about,
among other things, Queen Victoria's rubber tree; legends of the
moabi tree (for example, that powder from the bark confers
invisibility); a flower that absorbs energy from a tree; plants
that imitate other plants; a tree that rains; and a fern that
clones itself. Halle's drawings represent an investment in time
that returns a dividend of wonder more satisfying than the
ephemeral thrill afforded by the photograph. The Atlas of Poetic
Botany allows us to be amazed by forms of life that seem as strange
as visitors from another planet.
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