The Plant-Hunter's Atlas
A World Tour of Botanical Adventures, Chance Discoveries and Strange Specimens
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The Plant Hunter's Atlas is a volume telling some of the most extraordinary tales of horticultural discovery and exploring the characters behind the stories. Taking in the world's inhabited continents and spanning the centuries, the stories range from tales of derring-do in the age of discovery to modern-day botanists working at the cutting-edge of science. The text explores how plant hunters have been inspired by everything from scientific curiosity to economic greed, and their own ingrained sense of adventure.
Among the plant hunters included are: Sir Joseph Banks, Charles Darwin, David Douglas, Reginald Farrer, George Forrest, Robert Fortune, Tadeáš Haenke, Tom Hart Dyke, Alexander von Humboldt, the Lobb brothers, John Sibthorp and Ernest Henry Wilson.
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The Cabaret of Plants
- Forty Thousand Years of Plant Life and the Human Imagination
- De: Richard Mabey
- Narrado por: Ralph Lister
- Duración: 11 h y 14 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 102
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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.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Can't wait to listen to again!
- De hyacinthgirl en 12-27-16
De: Richard Mabey
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Gods, Wasps and Stranglers
- The Secret History and Redemptive Future of Fig Trees
- De: Mike Shanahan
- Narrado por: James Cameron Stewart
- Duración: 4 h y 42 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 29
They are trees of life and trees of knowledge. They are wish-fulfillers, rain forest royalty, more precious than gold. They are the fig trees, and they have affected humanity in profound but little-known ways. Gods, Wasps and Stranglers tells their amazing story. Fig trees fed our prehuman ancestors, influenced diverse cultures, and played key roles in the dawn of civilization.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Incredible research in a wonderful story
- De Alonsa Guevara en 11-24-22
De: Mike Shanahan
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Founding Gardeners
- The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation
- De: Andrea Wulf
- Narrado por: Antonia Bath
- Duración: 9 h y 20 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 204
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 171
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 168
From the author of the acclaimed The Brother Gardeners, a fascinating look at the founding fathers from the unique and intimate perspective of their lives as gardeners, plantsmen, and farmers. For the founding fathers, gardening, agriculture, and botany were elemental passions, as deeply ingrained in their characters as their belief in liberty for the nation they were creating. These stories reveal a guiding but previously overlooked ideology of the American Revolution.
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5 out of 5 stars
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"Outstanding Listen"
- De C. en 05-06-11
De: Andrea Wulf
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1493
- Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
- De: Charles C. Mann
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 17 h y 46 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,121
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,772
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,771
More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two halves of the world developed radically different suites of plants and animals. When Christopher Columbus set foot in the Americas, he ended that separation at a stroke. Driven by the economic goal of establishing trade with China, he accidentally set off an ecological convulsion as European vessels carried thousands of species to new homes across the oceans.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating Mindbending History.
- De Betsy Powel en 12-19-11
De: Charles C. Mann
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A Perfect Red
- De: Amy Butler Greenfield
- Narrado por: Suzanne Toren
- Duración: 10 h y 26 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 111
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 102
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 102
A Perfect Red recounts the colorful history of cochineal, a legendary red dye that was once one of the world's most precious commodities. Treasured by the ancient Mexicans, cochineal was sold in the great Aztec marketplaces, where it attracted the attention of the Spanish conquistadors in 1519. Shipped to Europe, the dye created a sensation, producing the brightest, strongest red the world had ever seen. Soon Spain's cochineal monopoly was worth a fortune. Desperate to find their own sources of the elusive dye, the English, French, Dutch, and other Europeans tried to crack the enigma of cochineal.
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4 out of 5 stars
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History of a peculiar substance through the ages
- De Tobia en 08-17-16
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American Eden
- David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic
- De: Victoria Johnson
- Narrado por: Susan Ericksen
- Duración: 14 h y 54 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 102
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 88
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 88
When Dr. David Hosack tilled the country's first botanical garden in the Manhattan soil more than 200 years ago, he didn't just dramatically alter the New York landscape; he left a monumental legacy of advocacy for public health and wide-ranging support for the sciences. In melodic prose, historian Victoria Johnson eloquently chronicles Hosack's tireless career to reveal the breadth of his impact. The result is a lush portrait of the man who gave voice to a new, deeply American understanding of the powers and perils of nature.
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5 out of 5 stars
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NYC as a semi-rural city
- De Elliott Wolfe, M.D. en 04-25-19
De: Victoria Johnson
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The Triumph of Seeds
- How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses & Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History
- De: Thor Hanson
- Narrado por: Marc Vietor
- Duración: 7 h y 30 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,692
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,502
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,508
We live in a world of seeds. From our morning toast to the cotton in our clothes, they are quite literally the stuff and staff of life, supporting diets, economies, and civilizations around the globe. Just as the search for nutmeg and the humble peppercorn drove the Age of Discovery, so did coffee beans help fuel the Enlightenment and cottonseed help spark the Industrial Revolution. And from the fall of Rome to the Arab Spring, the fate of nations continues to hinge on the seeds of a Middle Eastern grass known as wheat.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Delightfully simplistic!
- De Adrian en 03-30-16
De: Thor Hanson
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Dark Emu
- Black Seeds: Agriculture or Accident?
- De: Bruce Pascoe
- Narrado por: Bruce Pascoe
- Duración: 5 h y 36 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 96
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 83
Dark Emu argues for a reconsideration of the 'hunter-gatherer' tag for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians and attempts to rebut the colonial myths that have worked to justify dispossession. Accomplished author Bruce Pascoe provides compelling evidence from the diaries of early explorers that suggests that systems of food production and land management have been understated in modern retellings of Aboriginal history, and that a new look at Australia's past is required.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of the best books ever!!!!
- De Matt Powers en 05-07-18
De: Bruce Pascoe
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The Reason for Flowers
- Their History, Culture, Biology, and How They Change Our Lives
- De: Stephen Buchmann
- Narrado por: Jonathan Yen
- Duración: 14 h y 23 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 53
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 46
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 46
Flowers, and the fruits that follow, feed, clothe, sustain, and inspire all humanity. Flowers are used to celebrate all-important occasions, to express love, and are also the basis of global industries. Americans buy 10 million flowers a day, and perfumes are a worldwide industry worth $30 billion annually. Stephen Buchmann takes us along on an exploratory journey of the roles flowers play in the production of our foods, spices, medicines, and perfumes while simultaneously bringing joy and health.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Only for the Flower Lover
- De Anonymous User en 01-19-16
De: Stephen Buchmann
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1491
- New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
- De: Charles C. Mann
- Narrado por: Darrell Dennis
- Duración: 16 h y 17 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,771
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,245
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3,232
Traditionally, Americans learned in school that the ancestors of the people who inhabited the Western Hemisphere at the time of Columbus' landing had crossed the Bering Strait 12,000 years ago; existed mainly in small nomadic bands; and lived so lightly on the land that the Americas were, for all practical purposes, still a vast wilderness. But as Charles C. Mann now makes clear, archaeologists and anthropologists have spent the last 30 years proving these and many other long-held assumptions wrong.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Exposes Non-Academic Audience to The Debate Between Ideas of Pre-Colombian America's
- De Christopher en 01-19-17
De: Charles C. Mann
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Who Discovered America?
- The Untold History of the Peopling of the Americas
- De: Gavin Menzies, Ian Hudson
- Narrado por: Gildart Jackson
- Duración: 8 h y 6 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 95
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Greatly expanding on his blockbuster 1421, distinguished historian Gavin Menzies uncovers the complete untold history of how mankind came to the Americas - offering new revelations and a radical rethinking of the accepted historical record in Who Discovered America? The iconoclastic historian's magnum opus, Who Discovered America? calls into question our understanding of how the American continents were settled, shedding new light on the well-known "discoveries" of European explorers, including Christopher Columbus.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Like reading an appendix
- De D. McCracken en 01-23-15
De: Gavin Menzies, y otros
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The Tree
- A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live, and Why They Matter
- De: Colin Tudge
- Narrado por: Enn Reitel
- Duración: 19 h y 52 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 92
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 84
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 81
There are redwoods in California that were ancient by the time Columbus first landed and pines still alive that germinated around the time humans invented writing. There are Douglas firs as tall as skyscrapers and a banyan tree in Calcutta as big as a football field. From the tallest to the smallest, trees inspire wonder in all of us, and in The Tree, Colin Tudge travels around the world - throughout the United States, the Costa Rican rain forest, Panama and Brazil, India, New Zealand, China, and most of Europe - bringing to life stories and facts about the trees around us.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not the book described in the Audible summary
- De E. Miller en 04-28-17
De: Colin Tudge
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Trees in Paradise
- A California History
- De: Jared Farmer
- Narrado por: Kevin Scollin
- Duración: 19 h y 13 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 48
California now has more trees than at any time since the late Pleistocene. This green landscape, however, is not the work of nature. It’s the work of history. In the years after the Gold Rush, American settlers remade the California landscape, harnessing nature to their vision of the good life. Horticulturists, boosters, and civic reformers began to "improve" the bare, brown countryside, planting millions of trees to create groves, wooded suburbs, and landscaped cities.
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5 out of 5 stars
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lovely audiobook
- De Michael M. en 08-02-22
De: Jared Farmer
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The Suppressed History of America
- The Murder of Meriwether Lewis and the Mysterious Discoveries of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
- De: Paul Schrag, Xaviant Haze
- Narrado por: Allan Robertson
- Duración: 5 h y 51 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 92
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 83
Meriwether Lewis discovered far more than the history books tell - ancient civilizations, strange monuments, "nearly white, blue-eyed" Indians, and evidence that the American continent was visited long before the first European settlers arrived. And he was murdered to keep it all secret. Examining the shadows and cracks between America's official version of history, Xaviant Haze and Paul Schrag propose that the America of old taught in schools is not the America that was discovered by Lewis and Clark and other early explorers.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Don't Bother
- De Georgia Deardoff en 03-31-17
De: Paul Schrag, y otros
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Banana
- The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World
- De: Dan Koeppel
- Narrado por: Paul Woodson
- Duración: 7 h y 45 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 142
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 122
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 120
Banana combines a pop-science journey around the globe, a fascinating tale of an iconic American business enterprise, and a look into the alternately tragic and hilarious banana subculture (one does exist) - ultimately taking us to the high-tech labs where new bananas are literally being built in test tubes, in a race to save the world's most beloved fruit.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very Good Book - History, Science, and Economics
- De Jose en 11-08-17
De: Dan Koeppel
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Jungle of Stone
- The True Story of Two Men, Their Extraordinary Journey, and the Discovery of the Lost Civilization of the Maya
- De: William Carlsen
- Narrado por: Paul Michael Garcia
- Duración: 16 h y 35 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 624
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 560
In 1839 rumors of extraordinary yet baffling stone ruins buried within the unmapped jungles of Central America reached two of the world's most intrepid travelers. Seized by the reports, American diplomat John Lloyd Stephens and British artist Frederick Catherwood sailed together out of New York Harbor on an expedition into the forbidding rainforests of present-day Honduras, Guatemala, and Mexico. What they found would rewrite the West's understanding of human history.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Unsung Explorers at the Heart of History
- De thomas en 01-10-17
De: William Carlsen
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The Secret Token
- Myth, Obsession, and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke
- De: Andrew Lawler
- Narrado por: David H. Lawrence XVII
- Duración: 14 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 169
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 142
In 1587, 115 men, women, and children arrived at Roanoke Island on the coast of North Carolina to establish the first English settlement in the New World. But when the new colony's leader returned to Roanoke from a resupply mission, his settlers had vanished, leaving behind only a single clue - a "secret token" etched into a tree. What happened to the Lost Colony of Roanoke? That question has consumed historians, archeologists, and amateur sleuths for 400 years. In The Secret Token, Andrew Lawler sets out on a quest to determine the fate of the settlers.
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1 out of 5 stars
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trying to capitalize on race relations
- De Phil en 07-16-19
De: Andrew Lawler