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Queries And Confessions: With Illustrations Of 128 Varieties Of Natural Grasses

Queries And Confessions: With Illustrations Of 128 Varieties Of Natural Grasses

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General ReferenceEnvironmental Studies

ISBN10: 9354485529
ISBN13: 9789354485527
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Mar 15 2021
Pages: 254
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Discover the quiet drama of the grasslands in a classic study of form, texture, and survival. Begin with a single blade. First published in a bygone age of close observation, Queries And Confessions: With Illustrations Of 128 Varieties Of Natural Grasses reveals the richness of meadows, pastures, and roadsides through an illustrated botany reference that doubles as a natural grasses field guide. Bringing together careful description and fine line work, it supports wild grass species identification as well as the recognition of pasture and forage grasses that shaped rural economies, making it a vintage plant identification book that still speaks to contemporary eyes and hands. As a vintage agricultural botany book rooted in the agricultural botany of grasses, it bridges science and practice for botanists and naturalists, students of rural life, and anyone attentive to the subtle architecture of a blade, a stem, a seed-head. Drawing on close field observation, it remains quietly practical, touching on grassland management for farmers while still rewarding the slower gaze of the field botanist, the working farmer, or the artist searching this historic botanical illustration book for reference, pattern, and mood. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure, it stands as both a classic botanical reference book and an antique grass field guide for readers, artists, and curators of natural history alike.

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