Books by Walter Weston
“Walter Weston was an English clergyman, writer and mountaineer. I first encountered his work when I was researching nature writers who had visited Japan. Weston was famously captivated by Japanese landscapes, and he brought the Japanese Alps to the attention of the world with this book, The Playground of the Far East. I can really identify with Weston’s descriptions of alpine Japan – its silence and solitude; its vast beauty. I remember he describes a ‘mighty tree-grown amphitheatre’ above a cliff that ‘falls in three great leaps a thousand feet’ – to me this is such a powerful image. This book conjures a new world on every page.” Read more...
Chris Thorogood, Biologist
Interviews where books by Walter Weston 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
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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.
