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Gone Are the Days
Peter Byrne has led the life most of us can only dream about. After WW II he returned to Ireland, but being restless, he decided to find a job that would take him to exotic lands. Using his family's connections, he was hired as a manager on a huge Indian tea plantation in the Himalayan foothills--a posh job that came with 17 servants and a mansion. Almost immediately on arrival he was plunged into Indian jungle hunting, his primary love, when the local villagers turned to him with a plea to eliminate a rogue boar. Read his exciting description of how he jumped from a tree and sliced the boar's skull in two while half the adult males of the village stayed in the trees to watch and cheer him o...
Bulletin
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Banksia Lady
This is the story of Celia Rosser, the internationally acclaimed botanical illustrator, who ultimately dedicated her life to painting the entire genus of Banksia, the only artist to have done so. Her dedication to the task put her at the center of the Monash Banksia Project for twenty-five years, and culminating in the production of an extraordinary three-volume florilegium that became one of the great books published in the twentieth century. Banksia Lady reveals the emergence of an artist who grew up in difficult circumstances during the Great Depression ..."--Back cover.
The Linnean
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Flora ibérica
En esta obra se facilita la identificación de las plantas vasculares autóctonas o naturalizadas en la Península Ibérica e Islas Baleares. Una gran parte de la información se refiere a los caracteres que diferencian unas plantas de otras, con el objeto de que la estructura de dichas descripciones ayude a una contraposición rápida, fácil. Se describen en este volumen: Cl. Magnoliopsida: Subcl. Dicotyledones: - Ord. Plantaginales (CXLII. Plantaginaceae) Ord. Scrophulariales (CXLIII. Buddlejaceae, CXLIV. Scrophulariaceae).
