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Re: The Plant Book

Not an old edition of this:
The Plant Book by D. J. Mabberley
http://www.amazon.com/Plant-Book-Portable-Dictionary-Vascular-Plants/dp/0521820715

Graham Rice
http://TransatlanticPlantsman.com

>My daughter is moving, and at 40 bucks per hundred pounds, is clearing out
>her heavier stuff. She gave me a massive tome titled "The Plant Book". from
>Mynah Books (Mynah, as in the bird that mimics). but other than the -- oh,
>whaddya call those things, the publisher's logo -- on the spine, there is
>little information on who the publisher is. Strangely, there is no ISBN to
>be found.There is no publisher's name or address inside. It does say "First
>published as Brittanica 1997," and though I don't have Botanica, if my
>rapidly failing memory serves me correctly, this looks a lot like it. It
>also says copyright by Random House Australia 1997.
>
>I do have Encyclopaedia Botanica, an equally weighty volumn of mostly
>Australian plants, but it is very different.
>
>Anyone know the story behind this book?
>
>D
>
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