Books by Fiona Stafford
“One of the things I love about this book is that it gives as much time to a thistle as it does to conventionally beautiful flowers – sunflowers, poppies and so on; by the time you put the book down, if you hadn’t yet seen beauty and wonder in a thistle, the chances are you soon will!” Read more...
Chris Thorogood, Biologist
Interviews where books by Fiona Stafford were recommended
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The Cabaret of Plants: Forty Thousand Years of Plant Life and the Human Imagination
by Richard Mabey -
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The Brief Life of Flowers
by Fiona Stafford -
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Glasshouse Greenhouse: Haarkon's world tour of amazing botanical spaces
by India Hobson & Magnus Edmondson -
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The Playground of the Far East
by Walter Weston -
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Life in the Forests of the Far East
by Spenser St. John
The best books on Botany, recommended by Chris Thorogood
The best books on Botany, recommended by Chris Thorogood
In the face of climate change and widespread extinction, there has never been a more important time to study plant science, says Chris Thorogood – author of Pathless Forest: The Quest to Save the World’s Largest Flowers. Here he recommends five of his favourite books on botany, including historical accounts of plant exploration and a beautiful photobook profiling the world’s most impressive botanical gardens.
