Bamboo World: The Growing and Use of Clumping Bamboos

Cusack, Victor; Stewart, Deidre

ISBN 10: 0864179340 / ISBN 13: 9780864179340

Published by Kangaroo Press, Australia, 1999

About this Item

Jacket has moderate general wear and no tears. Name and review label to ffep, otherwise internally very clean. Binding tight. 224pp 'Bamboo World' distils simple practical advice on using bamboo for a wealth of applications. It draws on both traditional village technology and modern scientific research, accumulated over the author's many years of travel, practice, research, growing, and association with village communities and scientists from many countries. Size: 220mm x 285mm.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Bamboo World: The Growing and Use of Clumping Bamboos
• Publisher: Kangaroo Press, Australia
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0864179340
• ISBN 13: 9780864179340
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Natural History, Horticulture and Animal Care

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Synopsis

Clumping bamboos are magnificent plants which hold amazing potential. In Asia, the bamboo plant is used for housing, beautifying and shading the environment, easily adaptable to dozens of practical uses and even providing a delicious food source. Victor Cusack and Diedre Stewart combine an enviable knowledge for the subject and the cultures where the bamboo is considered both attractive and useful.