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Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
290 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"The riveting tale of two pioneering botanists and their historic boat trip down the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon. In the summer of 1938, botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter set off to run the Colorado River, accompanied by an ambitious and entrepreneurial expedition leader, a zoologist, and two amateur boatmen. With its churning waters and treacherous boulders, the Colorado was famed as the most dangerous river in the world. Journalists...
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xv, 290 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Language
English
Description
Between 1525 and 1640, a remarkable phenomenon occurred in the world of print: England saw the production of more than two dozen editions identified by their imprints or by contemporaries as 'herbals'. Sarah Neville explains how this genre grew from a series of tiny anonymous octavos to authoritative folio tomes with thousands of woodcuts, and how these curious works quickly became valuable commodities within a competitive print marketplace. Designed...
14) The plant cell
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1970
Edition
2d ed.
Physical Desc
x, 144 pages : illustrations, charts ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Now rich, Jacky Faber has purchased the Lorelei Lee to carry passengers across the Atlantic, and believing she has been absolved of past sins against the Crown, she docks in London, where she is arrested and sentenced to life in the newly formed penal colony in Australia.
Author
Publisher
Rocky Pond Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Young readers edition.
Lexile measure
1000L
Physical Desc
204 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Focusing on the human relationship with plants, the author uses botany to explore four basic human desires--sweetness, beauty, intoxication, and control--through portraits of four plants that embody them: the apple, tulip, marijuana, and potato.
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