Green Inheritance: Saving the Plants of the World

by Anthony Huxley and Ian Darwin Edwards

Book Overview

Humans are entirely dependent on plants: we eat them, build with them, burn them for power, breathe the air they maintain, cure our ills with them. Yet, we are destroying this fundamental resource at... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520243595
• ISBN13: 9780520243590
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 9.5" x 10.4"

Customer Reviews

Any with an interest in botany, conservation or plant history must have GREEN INHERITANCE

If GREEN INHERITANCE: SAVING THE PLANTS OF THE WORLD sounds like a familiar topic, it's because it's a completely revised, expanded edition of the prior WWF BOOK OF PLANTS. Any with an interest in botany, conservation or plant history must have GREEN INHERITANCE: it explores many topics relating to plant issues and conservation, from the dwindling genetic base of the world's crops and the fading last wild places where new plants may be discovered. GREEN INHERITANCE expands upon its predecessor with new coverage on invasive plants, plant diversity issues, herbal medicine, and more. A wealth of color photos throughout and chapters linking human concerns with issues of plant preservation make GREEN INHERITANCE of interest not only to the college-level collection, but to any general-interest public library strong in conservation titles. Diane C. Donovan, Editor California Bookwatch