理查·梅比（Richard Mabey） 英國極負盛名的自然書寫作家，致力於探討自然和文化的關係。曾任英國自然保護委員會顧問，二〇一二年成為皇家文學學會會員。著作逾三十餘本，包括暢銷植物聖經《大不列顛植物誌》（Flora Britannica）、《免費食物》（Food for Free）、《野草的故事》（Weeds: the Story of Outlaw Plants）、《自然良方》（Nature Cure）、《吉伯特•懷特》（Gilbert White）等，皆名列「惠特布萊德傳記獎」與「艾克利圖書獎」等多項圖書大獎。他是《泰晤士報》《衛報》《獨立報》、《格蘭塔》等權威媒體的植物專欄作家，身兼英國廣播公司（BBC）多部自然系列節目的總撰稿者和製片人。 譯者 林金源 專職譯者。熱愛大自然中的蟲魚鳥獸，優遊知識與心靈國度，把翻譯當作認識世界的方式。

In Richard Mabey's characteristically lyrical and informative tone, The Cabaret of Plants explores plant species which have challenged our imaginations, awoken that clichéd but real human emotion of wonder, and upturned our ideas about history, science, beauty and belief. Picked from every walk of life, they encompass crops, weeds, medicines, religious gathering-places and a wa...(展开全部)

"Highly entertaining…Mabey gets us to look at life from the plants’ point of view." ―Constance Casey, New York Times The Cabaret of Plants is a masterful, globe-trotting exploration of the relationship between humans and the kingdom of plants by the renowned naturalist Richard Mabey. A rich, sweeping, and wonderfully readable work of botanical history, The Cabaret of Plants exp...(展开全部)

Land of Plants in Motion is the first in any language to examine two companion stories: (1) the rise of an East Asian floristic zone and how the Japanese islands evolved an astonishing wealth of plant species, and (2) the growth of Japanese botanical sciences. The majority of plant species regarded as “Japanese” trace their origins to western China and the eastern Himalaya but ...(展开全部)

In The Botany of Desire, Pollan explores the concept of co-evolution, specifically of humankind's evolutionary relationship with four plants — apples, tulips, marijuana, and potatoes — from the dual perspectives of humans and the plants. He uses case examples that fit the archetype of four basic human desires, demonstrating how each of these botanical species are selectively gr...(展开全部)

In The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan argues that the answer lies at the heart of the intimately reciprocal relationship between people and plants. In telling the stories of four familiar plant species that are deeply woven into the fabric of our lives, Pollan illustrates how they evolved to satisfy humankinds’s most basic yearnings — and by doing so made themselves indispens...(展开全部)

In The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan argues that the answer lies at the heart of the intimately reciprocal relationship between people and plants. In telling the stories of four familiar plant species that are deeply woven into the fabric of our lives, Pollan illustrates how they evolved to satisfy humankinds’s most basic yearnings — and by doing so made themselves indispens...(展开全部)

In The Botany of Desire, Pollan explores the concept of co-evolution, specifically of humankind's evolutionary relationship with four plants — apples, tulips, marijuana, and potatoes — from the dual perspectives of humans and the plants. He uses case examples that fit the archetype of four basic human desires, demonstrating how each of these botanical species are selectively gr...(展开全部)

The Metamorphosis of Plants, published in 1790, was Goethe's first major attempt to describe what he called in a letter to a friend "the truth about the how of the organism." Inspired by the diversity of flora he found on a journey to Italy, Goethe sought a unity of form in diverse structures. He came to see in the leaf the germ of a plant's metamorphosis--"the true Proteus who...(展开全部)