Download or read book The Frampton Flora written by Richard Mabey and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1985 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 300 Victorian flower paintings recently discovered in the attic at Frampton Court in Gloucestershire represent one of the earliest and most intriguing collections of amateur flower paintings to be found to date. They are bold, exactly observed, and beautifully and skilfully executed. Those by Charlotte Anne Purnell in particular show an undiluted talent that must now rank her among the best of her generation. Between 1828 and 1851, the sisters Elizabeth, Charlotte, Catherine and Mary Anne Clifford, and their aunts Charlotte Anne, Catherine Elizabeth and Rosamond, explored minutely their corner of south-west Gloucestershire, and succeeded in painting an impressive number of its native plants. Their chief inspiration was simply the area they lived in. Frampton lies in the Vale of Berkeley, an area of mixed farming, criss-crossed by dykes and streams. The River Severn is just one mile to the west, and five miles to the south was Charlotte Anne's house, Stancombe Park, with its landscaped grounds set amonst the wild Cotswold beechwoods. The Frampton Flora is Richard Mabey's account of the wild flowers, the painters and their paintings, as well as an enduring record of the richness of the English countryside in the early 19th century. Illustrated in colour throughout, this uniquely beautiful book seeks to recreate the charm and intimacy of the original notebooks in which the watercolours were found.
Download or read book International Who s Who of Authors and Writers 2004 written by Europa Publications and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accurate and reliable biographical information essential to anyone interested in the world of literature TheInternational Who's Who of Authors and Writersoffers invaluable information on the personalities and organizations of the literary world, including many up-and-coming writers as well as established names. With over 8,000 entries, this updated edition features: * Concise biographical information on novelists, authors, playwrights, columnists, journalists, editors, and critics * Biographical details of established writers as well as those who have recently risen to prominence * Entries detailing career, works published, literary awards and prizes, membership, and contact addresses where available * An extensive listing of major international literary awards and prizes, and winners of those prizes * A directory of major literary organizations and literary agents * A listing of members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
Download or read book The Frampton Flora written by Richard Mabey and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Intelligence of Flowers written by Maurice Maeterlinck and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new translation of one of Maeterlinck’s four great nature essays.
Download or read book Changing Pedagogies for Children in Eighteenth Century England written by Michèle Cohen and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2023 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Published in association with BSECS, British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies"
Download or read book FPI written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indexes literature on flowering plants that include color photographs or illustrations.
Download or read book Collections Vol 14 N4 written by Juilee Decker and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This issue of the journal and its sister (14.03) bring together sixteen contributions from scholars from a variety of perspectives around the topic of Women & Collections.
Download or read book Wildflowers written by Carol Kopolow and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Flora of Dorsetshire Or a Catalogue of Plants Found in the County of Dorset written by John Clavell Mansel-Pleydell and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Uneasy Careers and Intimate Lives written by Pnina G. Abir-Am and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These pioneering studies of women in science pay special attention to the mutual impact of family life and scientific career. The contributors address five key themes: historical changes in such concepts as scientific career, profession, patronage, and family; differences in "gender image" associated with various branches of science; consequences of national differences and emigration; opportunities for scientific work opened or closed by marriage; and levels of women's awareness about the role of gender in science. An international group of historians of science discuss a wide range of European and American women scientists--from early nineteenth-century English botanists to Marie Curie to the twentieth-century theoretical biologist, Dorothy Wrinch.
Download or read book Flora Britannica written by Richard Mabey and published by Random House. This book was released on 1996 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""
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Download or read book Fencing Paradise written by Richard Mabey and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-12-31 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this remarkable journal of visits to Eden, Mabey transports his reader from Cornwall to the Mediterranean to the Tropics, from Old World to New, from present to personal memory, to new perspectives on our collective artistic and emotional past. Sensuous and evocative, exquisitely written, his new book challenges the reader to look differently at the world, and our place in the landscape. At the same time, Mabey is controversial in his views about what we mean by buzz words like 'renewable', or 'sustainable', and he is highly provocative in his final response to the Eden Project itself.
Download or read book Theoria written by Peter Fuller and published by Random House (UK). This book was released on 1988 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Kew Record of Taxonomic Literature Relating to Vascular Plants written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Insight Guides Great Breaks Cotswolds written by Insight Guides and published by Apa Publications (UK) Limited. This book was released on 2014-03-03 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enjoy a pint of beer in a classic pub in Bourton-on-the-Water, drive through the gorgeous rolling hills of Evesham or sample scones and tea in Painswick with Great Breaks Cotswolds - the perfect guide to finding your way around this area of outstanding natural beauty. Eight easy-to-follow tours around the area take in the most popular sights as well as hidden corners away from the crowds; all are illustrated with vivid photography, clear maps and suggestions for places to eat and drink en route. We explore key aspects of the region's rich history and culture to help you immerse yourself in the delightfully slow pace of Cotswold life. Travel tips help you find unique places to stay and offer practical advice for getting there and traveling around. A handy pocked-sized guide that's packed full of information and ideas.
Download or read book Flora of the Voynich Codex written by Arthur O. Tucker and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-09-06 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Voynich Codex is one the most fascinating and bizarre manuscripts in the world. The manuscript (potentially equivalent to 232 pages), or more properly a codex, consists of many foldout pages. It has been divided by previous researchers into sections known as Herbal/Botanical/Pharmacology; Balenological/Biological; Cosmology; one page known as The Rosette; and a final Recipe section. All the sections contain text in an unknown writing system, yet to be deciphered. Cryptological analyses by modern computer programs nevertheless have determined that the language is real and not a hoax, as has been suggested by some. Despite the fact that this codex is largely an herbal, the interpreters of this manuscript with two exceptions, have not been botanists. To this end, our recent research suggests that the Voynich is a 16th century codex associated with indigenous Indians of Nueva España educated in schools established by the Spanish. This is a breakthrough in Voynich studies. We are convinced that the Voynich codex is a document produced by Aztec descendants that has been unfiltered through Spanish editors. The flora of New Spain is vast, and the medicinal and culinary herbs used by the Aztecs were equally as copious. Even though it is our hypothesis that the Voynch Codex was written as a private herbal in 16th century New Spain, many of these herbs have relevance today because they or closely related species have been noted to be medicinal or have culinary value. The Voynich Codex has an estimated 359 illustration of plants (phytomorphs), 131 in the Herbal Section (large images) and 228 in the Pharmaceutical Section (small images of plant parts). In our book “Unraveling of the Voynich Codex”, to be published by Springer this summer, Tucker and Janick have partially identified species in the Herbal Section. In this proposed work, all of the plants of the Herbal Section will be identified along with those plants of the Pharmacology Section where identification is feasible. Each plant identification will include subdivisions to include descriptors (formal botanical identification), names in English, Spanish, and Mesoamerican names where known, ecology and range, and properties (medicinal and culinary) of these and related species. Photographs of the phytomorphs and contemporary plants will be included. These identifications represent hard evidence that the Voynich Codex is a 16th Century Mexican manuscript. Exploring the herbs of the Aztecs through the Voynich Codex will be a seminal work for all Voynich researchers and also of interest to a wider audience in medicinal and culinary herbs, artists, and historians. In summary, our new book project Flora of the Voynich Codex will provide a photo-illustrated guide to complete the botanical evidence related to the Voynich Codex, one of the most valuable historic texts of the 16th century.
