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The Cabaret of Plants: Forty Thousand Years of Plant Life and the Human Imagination Audiobook, by Richard Mabey Play Audiobook Sample

The Cabaret of Plants: Forty Thousand Years of Plant Life and the Human Imagination Audiobook

The Cabaret of Plants: Forty Thousand Years of Plant Life and the Human Imagination Audiobook, by Richard Mabey Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Ralph Lister Publisher: Tantor Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 7.50 hours at 1.5x Speed 5.63 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: April 2016 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781515974093

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

33

Longest Chapter Length:

41:06 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

04:45 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

20:26 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

Publisher Description

A rich, sweeping, and compelling work of botanical history, The Cabaret of Plants explores dozens of plant species that for millennia have challenged our imaginations, awoken our wonder, and upturned our ideas about history, science, beauty, and belief. Going back to the beginnings of human history, Richard Mabey shows how flowers, trees, and plants have been central to human experience not just as sources of food and medicine but as objects of worship, actors in creation myths, and symbols of war and peace, life and death. Mabey takes listeners from the Himalayas to Madagascar to the Amazon to our own backyards. He ranges through the work of writers, artists, and scientists and across nearly 40,000 years of human history: Ice Age images of plant life in ancient cave art and the earliest representations of the Garden of Eden; Newton’s apple and gravity, Priestley’s sprig of mint and photosynthesis, and Wordsworth’s daffodils; the history of cultivated plants such as maize, ginseng, and cotton; and the ways the sturdy oak became the symbol of British nationhood and the giant sequoia came to epitomize the spirit of America.

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"An unusual and vastly entertaining journey into the world of mysterious plant life as experienced by a gifted nature writer."

— Kirkus Starred Review

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About Richard Mabey

Richard Mabey is the author of Food for Free, Flora Britannica, and Weeds: In Defense of Nature’s Most Unloved Plants, among other books. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he has narrated popular BBC television and radio series and written for the Guardian and Granta. He lives in Norfolk, England.

About Ralph Lister

Ralph Lister is an actor, voice actor, and AudioFile Earphones Award–winning narrator. He spent fifteen years in London theater before moving to the United States to focus on film and television. He has held numerous roles in Shakespeare and modern dramas, as well as starring roles in independent films. His voice and character work can be heard in Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearland 13 Going On 30. He lives in Los Angeles.