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Copy Link to Download : https://site.bookcenterapp.com/YUMPU/198485934X Book Synopsis : 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 YorkerFrom 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. Book Detail : Title: Xerophile, Revised Edition: Cactus Photographs from Expeditions of the Obsessed Author: Published: - Pages: - Aw
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Book Synopsis :
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 YorkerFrom 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.
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Xerophile, Revised Edition: Cactus Photographs from Expeditions of the Obsessed
An updated edition of the cult classic, featuring stunning archival photographs of hundreds of the rarest
and most spectacular plants on Earth, takn by a motley crew of cactus obsessives
“Acatalogue of wonders that most of us will never get to see in person.”#8212The New
YorkerFrom the people behind Cactus Store comes Xerophile, a photographic collection of these
improbable desert wonders in the wild. Draing on the archives of twenty-five cactus
obsessives—frm PhD botanist to banker, art teacher to cancer researcher—ths 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’smost 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 Galápags
Islands.
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