Tag: Botany
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Simon Barnes. How to be a Bad Botanist. Book review. Part II
Barnes (Simon). How to be a Bad Botanist. Simon & Schuster, 2024. Next, Barnes takes us on a walk along an “entangled riverbank”, then a chapter on domestication (mostly of plants) in which he surprises me: aurochs, the extinct ancestors of modern cattle, is an unusual word. Aurochs is both singular and plural but there are two…
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Simon Barnes. How to be a Bad Botanist. Book review. Part I
Barnes (Simon). How to be a Bad Botanist. Simon & Schuster, 2024. Following his earlier How to be a Bad Birdwatcher, Simon Barnes here writes as beautifully, accessibly and inspiringly as ever. He is a very fine judge of how best to impart information and enthusiasm and to philosophise without ever patronising. The book is…