Vickery's Folk Flora
An A-Z of the Folklore and Uses of British and Irish Plants
$98.80
- Hardcover
912 pages
- Release Date
3 April 2019
Summary
This book is a dictionary of British (native, naturalised and cultivated) plants and the folklore associated with them. Unlike many plant-lore publications, Vickery’s Folk Flora tells us what people currently do and believe, rather than what Victorians did and believed. The result is a vivid demonstration that plant folklore in the British Isles is not only surviving but flourishing; adapting and evolving as time goes by, even in urban areas.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781474604628 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1474604625 |
| Author: | Roy Vickery |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 912 |
| Release Date: | 3 April 2019 |
| Weight: | 1.24kg |
| Dimensions: | 238mm x 158mm x 58mm |
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Roy Vickery’s magisterial Folk Flora is based on a heroic lifetime of scholarship and full of wonderful details - Sunday Times
Roy Vickery’s magisterial Folk Flora is based on a heroic lifetime of scholarship and full of wonderful details * Sunday Times *
About The Author
Roy Vickery
Roy Vickery worked as a botanist at the Natural History Museum, London, from 1965-2007; he remains a Scientific Associate at the Museum. He has been collecting and writing about the folklore and traditional uses of plants for many years. He has served as chairman of Meetings Committee the Botanical Society of the British Isles (now Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland), and as a vice-president of the Society, has served on the committee of both the Folklore Society and the Society for Folk Life Studies, and is currently President of the South London Botanical Institute. He also writes on Quaker and green issues.
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