Atlas of Poetic Botany
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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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MIT Press ,
Francis Halle
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MIT Press,
Francis Halle
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Slovart
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Slovart
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