Almost 50 years after its original publication, this seminal, million-copy-selling book is published in an updated and extended edition. WIld Flowers is the perfect guide to help anyone interested in the natural world to identify and learn about the wild flowers they see all around them, whether they are walking in urban green settings or the countryside.Roger Phillips is a world-renowned, award-winning photographer, botanist, plantsman, mycologist and wild food forager. This updated edition of his ground-breaking first book will help you to identify over 1,000 photographed and illustrated wild flowers, month by month, in order of flowering.The text of Wild Flowers draws on Roger's extensive expertise, providing details of each plant, including height, habitat, rarity, distribution, flowering period, and background information both medical or historical.With English, botanical and family names for each plant, and three indexes for ease of navigation, this is a comprehensive and essential photographic guide to the wild flowers of the British Isles.
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Comprehensive and featuring beautiful photographs, Wild Flowers is a must-have for all enthusiasts of the natural world, by acclaimed photographer, author and botanist Roger Phillips.
Comprehensive and featuring beautiful photographs, Wild Flowers is a must-have for all enthusiasts of the natural world, by acclaimed photographer and author Roger Phillips.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781529082203
Publisert
2024-04-25
Utgiver
Vendor
Macmillan
Vekt
974 gr
Høyde
252 mm
Bredde
196 mm
Dybde
23 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
224

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Biographical note

Roger Phillips was an award-winning photographer with a reputation spanning nearly fifty years. He consistently pioneered the use of colour photography for the reliable identification of natural history subjects, and wrote more than forty books dedicated to this purpose including Wild Flowers: of Britain and Ireland, Vegetables, Mushrooms and Wild Food. He wrote and presented two major six-part TV series on gardening for the BBC and Channel 4. In 2010, he received an MBE for his work on London’s garden squares. Roger Phillips died in November 2021.