Re: Ancient Medit Plants
- To: g*@dial.pipex.com
- Subject: Re: Ancient Medit Plants
- From: N* T*
- Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 10:11:14 CST6CDT
- Priority: normal
Colette,
I liked you posting. Just an immediate thought: do you have Baumann's 1993
book on ancient Greek plant lore? Here are the details from
http://www.nhbs.co.uk While there I also notice a new book on the same
subject due out in December. Details below too.
Best wishes, Nick
Greek Wild Flowers
and Plant Lore in Ancient Greece
H Baumann
Greece is richer in wild flowers than any other European country, with more
than 6,000 species. This book is partly a field guide and partly a guide to
their place in literature, mythology, history and art.
252 pages, 442 col photos.
Herbert Press
Price GBP 16.99 - 1993
Plants and Plant Lore in Ancient Greece
John Raven
Compilation of Raven's four Gray Lectures presented to the University of
Cambridge in 1976 and another he gave in Oxford in 1971, displaying his
sprightly scholarship and lifetime's intimacy with Greek plants. His themes
are discussed and expanded in the light of recent research by distinguished
and botanical and classical scholars such as Dr. William Stern and
Professors Nicholas Jardine and Peter Warren.
144 pages, 31 col and 5 b/w illus.
Oxbow
Price GBP 26.95 - NYP December 2000
Nick Turland
Flora of China Project, Missouri Botanical Garden,
P.O. Box 299, St. Louis, MO 63166-0299, U.S.A.
E-mail: Nicholas.Turland@mobot.org
Phone: +1 314 577 0269 Fax: +1 314 577 9438
MBG web: http://www.mobot.org
FOC web: http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/china/
