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Shows how rewarding our green inheritance is - before it is too late and we destroy our life-support system Highlights a deepening concern about the destruction that threatens our plant heritage Demonstrates the wonder and worth of plants and their great importance and potential - plants provide us with power - food, energy, medication and oxygen levels Explains why our plants cannot take any more punishment and how those that remain can be saved Actively campaigns the need to halt the devastation on our plant system and subsequently the animal kingdom
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ANTHONY HUXLEY'S CONSUMING INTEREST IN WILD PLANTS AND WILD PLACES HAS TAKEN HIM ALL OVER THE WORLD. HIS MANY PUBLICATIONS - THIS IS HIS 32ND BOOK - AND HORTICULTUREAL JOURNALISM HAS MADE HIM A HOUSEHOLD NAME AS A BOTANIST AND GARDENING AUTHORITY. HE IS A MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY WHICH HAS AWARDED HIM ITS HIGHEST ACCOLADE, THE VICTORIAN MEDAL OF HONOUR.
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In this timely, comprehensive volume British botanist Huxley documents the remarkable contributions made by plants to world culture, the strains placed on these "green resources" today and the price we are paying for the loss of plant species and sustainable natural environments. Green Inheritance was first published in 1984 as part of a joint effort to focus attention on such issues by the World Wildlife Fund and the International Union for Conservation of Nature. In this revised edition for the 1990s Huxley writes clearly and intelligently, without pretension or botanical jargon, and provides a perfect layman's introduction to difficult choices. Saving the plants that save us, as he puts it, involves more than setting aside reserves for rain forests and pandas; it requires grass-roots education and action, government leadership and international cooperation to preserve genetic diversity built up by centuries of natural selection and human breeding. The author profiles dozens of plants whose discovery and development significantly changed human life--essential staple crops that feed the world, exotic herbs and spices, crops for industrial uses, medicinal plants, ornamentals, curiosities. The bottom line is that all life on earth depends on plants; their current rate of destruction endangers life.
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- PublisherGaia Books
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 1856752011
- ISBN 13 9781856752015
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number3
- Number of pages208
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