Deceptive Beauties: The World of Wild Orchids
(Sprache: Englisch)
The images are stunning, a glory of colors and shapes, but this book offers much more. Ziegler--a trained biologist, as well as photographer--shows these remarkable plants in the context of their habitat: marsh, semi-desert, tropical forest. That--and his...
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The images are stunning, a glory of colors and shapes, but this book offers much more. Ziegler--a trained biologist, as well as photographer--shows these remarkable plants in the context of their habitat: marsh, semi-desert, tropical forest. That--and his astonishing photographs of orchids and their pollinators--reminds us how clever, precious, and diverse nature can be, and why conservation matters.--Chris Johns, editor in chief, "National Geographic Magazine". 184 pp.
Autoren-Porträt von Christian Ziegler
Christian Ziegler is a biologist-turned-photographer specializing in tropical natural history. He is a frequent contributor to National Geographic Magazine, GEO, and Smithsonian, among others. He is an associate for communication with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and a founding fellow of the International League of Conservation photographers.
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- Autor: Christian Ziegler
- 2011, 184 Seiten, Maße: 25,1 x 25,4 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: UNIV OF CHICAGO PR
- ISBN-10: 0226982971
- ISBN-13: 9780226982977
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Englisch
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"The moment that the orchid stumbled upon one of the keys to human desire and used it to unlock our hearts, it conquered a whole new world-our world-and enlisted a vast new crew of credulous animals more than happy to do its bidding. Let's face it: we're all orchid dupes now." -Michael Pollan, from the Introduction "Orchid flowers have long been understood to be ridiculously fascinating, and this book shows just that, gorgeously. They certainly merit the 'Oh my' reputation they have acquired over the centuries. But, the problem for us mere mortals is that even if most lucky, we only bump into one in the wild every now and then. And here you have many of their kinds all at once, as though you were incredibly lucky in the forest, though of course there is no place or date on earth when you can see them like this. This new look is a fantastic and fantasmatic companion for any day when you are lucky enough to encounter one of these flowers, so unique as to turn any flower show into oatmeal." -Dan Janzen, Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania"
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