Wicked Plants
The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities
$54.66
- Hardcover
256 pages
- Release Date
31 August 2017
Summary
A tree that sheds poison daggers; a glistening red seed that stops the heart; a shrub that causes paralysis; a vine that strangles; and a leaf that triggered a war. In Wicked Plants, Stewart takes on over two hundred of Mother Nature’s most appalling creations. It’s an A to Z of plants that kill, maim, intoxicate, and otherwise offend. You’ll learn which plants to avoid (like exploding shrubs), which plants make themselves exceedingly unwelcome (like the vine that ate the South), and which on…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781565126831 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1565126831 |
| Author: | Amy Stewart, Briony Morrow-Cribbs, Jonathon Rosen |
| Publisher: | Workman Publishing |
| Imprint: | Algonquin Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 31 August 2017 |
| Weight: | 299g |
| Dimensions: | 182mm x 144mm x 24mm |
About The Author
Amy Stewart
Briony Morrow-Cribbs studied art at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver, British Columbia, and currently lives in Brattleboro, Vermont, where she owns and operates Twin Vixen Press.
Amy Stewart is the award-winning author of six books on the perils and pleasures of the natural world. She is the cofounder of the popular blog Garden Rant and is a contributing editor at Fine Gardening magazine. She lives in Portland with her husband Scott Brown, a rare book dealer. When she isn’t writing, she’s making art or teaching art and writing classes online.
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