The Tropical Hothouse Royal Botanic Gardens Kew

Author : Chris Thorogood
Publisher : Paperscapes
ISBN 13 : 9780233006017
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book The Tropical Hothouse (Royal Botanic Gardens Kew) written by Chris Thorogood and published by Paperscapes. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tropical Hothouse features press-out shapes, enabling you to transform the book into a work of art, creating a landscape of over 50 rare and exotic hothouse plants.

Author : William Jackson Bean
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Total Pages : 432 pages
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Download or read book The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew written by William Jackson Bean and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : F. N. Hepper
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Total Pages : 204 pages
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Download or read book Kew written by F. N. Hepper and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the varied garden areas, ornamental structures, and greenhouses at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, with an overview of Kew's research activities in the botanical sciences.

Author : Sir William Jackson Hooker
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Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kew Gardens, Or, A Popular Guide to the Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew written by Sir William Jackson Hooker and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kate Teltscher
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1529004861
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Palace of Palms written by Kate Teltscher and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2020-07-09 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A glorious green adventure story.' Ann Treneman, The Times 'Books of the Year' 'The most enthralling historical book I’ve read this year.' Claire Tomalin, New Statesman 'Books of the year' Daringly innovative when it opened in 1848, the Palm House in Kew Gardens remains one of the most beautiful glass buildings in the world today. Seemingly weightless, vast and yet light, the Palm House floats free from architectural convention, at once monumental and ethereal. From a distance, the crowns of the palms within are silhouetted in the central dome; close to, banana leaves thrust themselves against the glass. To enter it is to enter a tropical fantasy. The body is assaulted by heat, light and the smell of damp vegetation. In Palace of Palms, Kate Teltscher tells the extraordinary story of its creation and of the Victorians’ obsession with the palms that filled it. It is a story of breathtaking ambition, of scientific discovery and, crucially, of the remarkable men whose vision it was. The Palm House was commissioned by the charismatic first Director of Kew, Sir William Hooker, designed by the audacious Irish engineer, Richard Turner, and managed by Kew’s forthright curator, John Smith, who battled with boilers and floods to ensure the survival of the rare and wondrous plants it housed.

Author : Timothy M. A. Utteridge
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ISBN 13 : 9781842466032
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Kew Tropical Plant Families Identification Handbook written by Timothy M. A. Utteridge and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Darwin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521590334
Total Pages : 1102 pages
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Download or read book [The correspondence ] ; The correspondence of Charles Darwin. 11. 1863 written by Charles Darwin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 1102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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Total Pages : 312 pages
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Download or read book Wanderings Through the Conservatories at Kew written by Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Daniel Oliver
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Total Pages : 78 pages
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Download or read book Guide to the Royal Botanic Gardens and Pleasure Grounds, Kew written by Daniel Oliver and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Shinzo Kohjiya
Publisher : Smithers Rapra
ISBN 13 : 191024208X
Total Pages : 336 pages
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Download or read book Natural Rubber written by Shinzo Kohjiya and published by Smithers Rapra. This book was released on 2015-02-19 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the story of natural rubber, explaining its historical, social and scientific significance towards sustainable development. Hevea is a natural rubber-yielding tree and is among a few plants that have deeply impacted upon civilisation by having made present-day transportation networks possible: tyres made of natural rubber have enabled airplanes to fly, automobiles, buses, trucks and off-the-road vehicles to move. Rubbery elastic materials are indispensable in modern technology and even in the medical arena a pair of natural rubber gloves, used in surgical operations, are imperative for the safety of patients as well as medical staff.This tropical tree is one of man's most recently domesticated plants after the odyssey from the Amazon to England and then to Asia, when modern science was just establishing in the 18th century. The plantations in Asia managed to agriculturally mass-produce natural rubber at the beginning of the 20th century, just in time for the industrial mass production of automobiles. The reason why the cultivation of it has failed in the Amazon is discussed extensively taking Fordlandia, 1928aE '1945, as an example.In the story, the unique elastic properties of natural rubber are explained and discussed in terms of modern science, and its influence toward the 21st century is analysed with sustainable development in mind.Not only students, researchers and engineers related to natural rubber but also those interested in sustainable development will find this book informative, evoking his or her deliberation on our future.