Humphreys, Helen.

Field Study : Meditations on a Year at the Herbarium. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (234 pages)

Front Cover -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part One: Winter -- 1: The Herbarium -- 2: Ferns -- 3: Pines -- 4: Grasses -- 5: Lilies -- Part Two: Spring -- 6: Trees -- 7: Accidentals -- 8: The Rose Family -- Part Three: Summer -- 9: Chicory -- 10: Trailing Plants -- Part Four: Autumn -- 11: Spurges & -- Worts -- 12: Evolutionary Logic -- 13: Algae & -- Fungi -- 14: On Thoreau -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Winter -- Spring -- Summer -- Autumn -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgements -- Selected Bibliography -- Image Credits -- Copyright -- Back Cover.

In Field Study, award-winning author Helen Humphreys returns to her brilliant illustrated meditations, this time to delve into the lost world of herbarium collections to examine where and how we look to find the solace of nature in a declining natural world.

9781773057767


Herbaria.


Electronic books.

QK75 .H86 2021

580.74