The story of weeds

Weeds

▼Editor's Recommendation▼
☆ Winner of numerous annual book awards: recommended by the 11th National Library Wenjin Book Award, named one of the 2015 Sina Best Books List's Top Ten Books, one of the 2015 Phoenix.com Books of the Year, one of the 2015 China 30 Best Books by the China Publishing Association, and a recommended book by CCTV's "Reading" program. ☆ Collector's Edition, newly revised and updated, with 13 exquisite original illustrations. ☆ Cover prints hand-crafted by Zhang Enquan, designer of the Beijing Zoo. ☆ Preface by Liu Huajie, Professor of Philosophy at Peking University and advocate of natural history. Recommended: Goat's bean, hyssop, marigold, as well as sedge, burdock, and cleaver... Do you see them as delightful weeds or abominable agricultural hazards? Are they symbols of vitality, unburned by wildfires in the wilderness and reborn in the spring breeze, or rebellious troublemakers in the garden?
Richard Mabey, hailed by The Times as "Britain's great naturalist of our time," portrays weeds not as enemies of gardening enthusiasts but as nimble, tenacious wanderers, year-round neighbors, nomads at the intersection of nature and civilization, wild and domesticated, and warnings from a severely polluted landscape. Even the humble roadside weed teaches us how to survive at the edge of nature.
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▼Introduction▼
British naturalist writer Richard Maybee says that the definition of weeds depends on how humans view them.
Weeds live next to us. Mabey defends the unloved plants in nature and explores the complex relationship between weeds and humans from history, novels, poetry, drama and folk tales.
The wildness behind civilization has never left. This is a history of the game between humans and nature, and also a vast picture of the migration and wandering of weeds.
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▼Media Comments▼
Plants flourish in his writings. As a naturalist, Richard Mabey is a part of nature... "The Story of Weeds" defends wandering plants. The deeper his writing goes, the greater his respect for nature fighting on the edge.
—The Guardian
A book that is both ironic and wonderful... Maebie mused ruefully that after an era of profound change, weeds may be all that remains.
—The New York Times Book Review
"The Story of Weeds" reminds people to look at plants from a broader temporal and spatial perspective and a non-anthropocentric perspective.
——Liu Huajie

2020-08-01

译林出版社

Yilin Skyline

303

9787544774079