Description
| Product ID: | 9781984859341 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | CN |
| Title: | Xerophile |
| Subtitle: | Cactus Photographs from Expeditions of the Obsessed |
| Authors: | Author: Cactus Store |
| Page Count: | 368 |
| Subjects: | Photography and photographs, Photography & photographs |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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 PhD 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 Galápagos Islands. |
| Imprint Name: | Ten Speed Press |
| Publisher Name: | Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-11-23 |
