Categorie: Boek

Helen Bynum and William Bynum | 2023

This is a visual compendium of botanical sketches, many specially photographed, providing a revealing insight into the immediate responses of artists encountering the glories of the plant world.

While highly finished drawings and paintings frequently feature in histories of botanical art, the preparatory sketches, first impressions and creative thoughts on paper behind them are rarely seen and have often remained hidden and locked away.

Botanical Sketchbooks gloriously brings these personal and vividly spontaneous records back into the light. In a series of biographical portraits organized thematically into four sections, the book illuminates various intriguing characters from many different countries and cultures, including Germany, France, Italy, America, Australia, Japan and China.

Lees verder “Botanical Sketchbooks”

A Field Guide for Birders, Naturalists, and Ecologists

Iain Campbell, Ken Behrens, Charley Hesse, and Phil Chaon | Princeton University Press

Accurately identifying and understanding habitats in detail is essential to any birder, naturalist, outdoor enthusiast, or ecologist who wants to get the most out of their experiences in the field. Habitats of the World is the first field guide to the world’s major land habitats—189.

Using the format of a natural history field guide, this compact, accessible, and comprehensive book features concise identification descriptions. It is richly illustrated—including more than 650 colour photographs of habitats and their wildlife, 150 distribution maps, 200 diagrams, and 150 silhouettes depicting each habitat alongside a human figure, providing an immediate grasp of its look and scale.

Lees verder “Habitats of the World”

The Life of Linnaeus

Gunnar Broberg (translation Anna Paterson)| 2023, Princeton University Press

A new biography offers a vivid portrait of Linnaeus’s life and work. Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778), the father of modern biological taxonomy, formalised and popularised the system of binomial nomenclature used to classify plants and animals. 

Linnaeus himself classified thousands of species; the simple and immediately recognisable abbreviation “L” is used to mark his classifications.

Lees verder “The Man Who Organized Nature”