num_pages: 352
description: The ultimate gift for gardeners and art-lovers featuring 300 of the most beautiful and pioneering botanical images ever Following in the footsteps of the international bestseller Map Exploring the World  this fresh and visually stunning survey celebrates the extraordinary beauty and diversity of plants. It combines photographs and cutting-edge micrograph scans with watercolours drawings and prints to bring this universally popular and captivating subject vividly to life. Carefully selected by an international panel of experts and arranged in a uniquely structured sequence to highlight thought-provoking contrasts and similarities this stunning compilation of botanically themed images includes iconic work by celebrated artists photographers scientists and botanical illustrators as well as rare and previously unpublished images. Advisory panel : Rosie Atkins Gillian Barlow Brent Elliott Celia Fisher Patricia Jonas Rob Kesseler Hans Walter Laack Gren Lucas Henry Noltie Mikinori Ogisu Pia stlund Lynn Parker Martyn Rix Charlotte Tancin Alice Tangerini and Anita Walsmit Sachs Additional texts : Rosie Atkins Helen Bynum Ruth Chivers James Compton Tim Cooke Brent Elliott Celia Fisher Carolyn Fry Patricia Jonas Rob Kesseler Hans Walter Lack Paula McWaters Pia stlund Lynn Parker Martyn Rix Julian Shaw Charlotte Tancin Alice Tangerini Guy Tindale Jacek Wajer and Martin Walters
language: English
title: Plant: Exploring the Botanical World
publisher: Phaidon Press