Pathless forest: the quest to save the world's biggest flowers
Pathless Forest is the story of his journey to study and protect this remarkable plant - a biological enigma, still little understood, which invades vines as a leafless parasite and steals its food from them. We join him on a mind-bending adventure, as he faces a seemingly impenetrable barrier of weird, wonderful and sometimes fearsome flora; finds himself smacking off leeches, hanging off vines, wading through rivers; and following indigenous tribes into remote, untrodden rainforests in search of Rafflesia's ghostly, foul-smelling blooms, more than a metre across.
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Format: | Texto biblioteca |
Language: | eng |
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London (UK) Allen Lane
2024
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Subjects: | plants, conservation, parasitic plants, Rafflesiaceae, SDG 15, |
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