Outstanding plants that have changed our life. Bainum H., Bainum U.

The development of mankind cannot be imagined without plants: for millennia, they give us food, shelter, clothes, vehicles and medicines. Helen and William Bainum historians of science and medicine, as well as passionate gardeners, trace the history of people with 80 key plants in this book over the past 12,000 years. They begin with the first cultivated cereals that have laid the foundations of the development of civilizations (wheat, rice, corn), devote the following section to plants from which our material world of ships, housing, clothes, furniture (oak, linen, cotton) were created, then go to commodity crops , radically influenced the world economy, colonialism and post -colonialism, as well as on the usual models of consumption (tea, coffee, sugarcane).

from pumpkins and beans that came from America to African sorghum and Yams, from Brazilian rubber to Chinese bamboo geographical coverage of the Grandiazen Book. This is an amazing publication, illustrated by unique old drawings, engravings, lithographs and paintings from the collection of royal botanical gardens in London, will become a source of new knowledge and inspiration for everyone who is interested in history, anthropology and cultural, and botany, and for everyone who is Not indifferent to the beauty and diversity of the kingdom of Flora.