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Store Cactus - Xerophile Cactus Photographs From Expeditions Of The Obsessed - Paperback
Store Cactus - Xerophile Cactus Photographs From Expeditions Of The Obsessed - Paperback
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Description: An updated edition of the cult classic featuring stunning archival photographs of hundreds of the rarest and most spectacular plants on Earth taken by a motley crew of cactus obsessives A catalogue of wonders that most of us will never get to see in person. The New Yorker From the people behind Cactus Store comes Xerophile a photographic collection of these improbable desert wonders in the wild. Drawing on the archives of twenty - five cactus obsessives from Ph D botanist to banker art teacher to cancer researcher this revised edition spans eighty years and features new and expanded descriptive notes for all 350+ photos. Xerophile brings together eighty years worth of these explorers remarkable images from some of the world's most remote habitats: a peculiar two - leaved plant that lives for millennia in the deserts of Namibia; succulents whose poisonous sap is used by hunters to fell large game in Angola; and cactus that live on snow - covered mountains in Bolivia sink below ground level to survive droughts in Mexico are pollinated by bats in Brazil and grow in pure lava fields of the Gala pagos Islands.
Title: Xerophile Cactus Photographs From Expeditions Of The Obsessed
Author(s): Store Cactus
Publisher: Potter/ Ten Speed/ Harmony/ Rodale
Barcode: 9781984859341
Pages: 368 Pages, 379 Photos
Publication Date: 11/23/2021
Category: Photography & Photographs
Description: An updated edition of the cult classic featuring stunning archival photographs of hundreds of the rarest and most spectacular plants on Earth taken by a motley crew of cactus obsessives A catalogue of wonders that most of us will never get to see in person. The New Yorker From the people behind Cactus Store comes Xerophile a photographic collection of these improbable desert wonders in the wild. Drawing on the archives of twenty - five cactus obsessives from Ph D botanist to banker art teacher to cancer researcher this revised edition spans eighty years and features new and expanded descriptive notes for all 350+ photos. Xerophile brings together eighty years worth of these explorers remarkable images from some of the world's most remote habitats: a peculiar two - leaved plant that lives for millennia in the deserts of Namibia; succulents whose poisonous sap is used by hunters to fell large game in Angola; and cactus that live on snow - covered mountains in Bolivia sink below ground level to survive droughts in Mexico are pollinated by bats in Brazil and grow in pure lava fields of the Gala pagos Islands.
Title: Xerophile Cactus Photographs From Expeditions Of The Obsessed
Author(s): Store Cactus
Publisher: Potter/ Ten Speed/ Harmony/ Rodale
Barcode: 9781984859341
Pages: 368 Pages, 379 Photos
Publication Date: 11/23/2021
Category: Photography & Photographs
