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Title: The Cabaret of Plants
Subtitle: Forty Thousand Years of Plant Life and the Human Imagination
Author: Richard Mabey
Narrator: Ralph Lister
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
Language: English
Release date: 04-29-16
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 33 votes
Genres: History, World
Publisher's Summary:
A rich, sweeping, and compelling work of botanical history, The Cabaret of Plants explores dozens of plant species that for millennia have challenged our imaginations, awoken our wonder, and upturned our ideas about history, science, beauty, and belief. Going back to the beginnings of human history, Richard Mabey shows how flowers, trees, and plants have been central to human experience not just as sources of food and medicine but as objects of worship, actors in creation myths, and symbols of war and peace, life and death.
Mabey takes listeners from the Himalayas to Madagascar to the Amazon to our own backyards. He ranges through the work of writers, artists, and scientists and across nearly 40,000 years of human history: Ice Age images of plant life in ancient cave art and the earliest representations of the Garden of Eden; Newton's apple and gravity, Priestley's sprig of mint and photosynthesis, and Wordsworth's daffodils; the history of cultivated plants such as maize, ginseng, and cotton; and the ways the sturdy oak became the symbol of British nationhood and the giant sequoia came to epitomize the spirit of America.
Critic Reviews:
"An unusual and vastly entertaining journey into the world of mysterious plant life as experienced by a gifted nature writer." (Kirkus)
