Растения, как вы их никогда не видели. Фундаментальная ботаника, превращённая в захватывающее визуальное шоу силами лучших научных иллюстраторов мира.
This box set tracks the history of key plant families from around the world, detailing the journeys of some plants now more commonly found in the back garden.
Flora introduces the botanists that braved disease, war, and other dangers to bring back the range of plants that we now see on a daily basis. This box set also documents the remarkable behaviours that plants have adapted to survive in hostile and changing habitats.
With more than 20 essays and 160 illustrations, this box set includes detailed descriptions of different specimens of plants, and includes information on regions of cultivation and folklore.
Containing hundreds of illustrations from original botanical paintings held at the Natural History Museum, this box set is visually stunning and informative. Coming complete with 36 framable prints, this book would make a wonderful gift for any horticultural enthusiast.
With more than 70 million specimens, the Museum is home to the largest and most important natural history collections in the world.The scope of the specimens is simply vast including the ill-fated dodo, meteorites from Mars and a full-size blue whale skeleton. The collections cover almost all groups of animals, plants, minerals and fossils ranging from cells on slides to whole animals preserved in alcohol.The Library of the Museum is a repository for the largest collection of natural history literature in the world. It holds half a million artworks, comprising one of Britain's biggest art collections, and over one million books, including rare, richly illustrated antique volumes.