World-renowned anthropologist and ethnopharmacologist Christian Ratsch provides the latest scientific updates to this classic work on psychoactive flora by two eminent researchers.
• Numerous new and rare color photographs complement the completely revised and updated text.
Whether you're an avid nature lover or newly discovering the world outside your door, you'll find information and inspiration in this beautifully illustrated pocket companion. Organized by season, its colourful pages are brimming with wondrous wildflowers and plants to discover as you wander, forage, and explore - from alder, foxglove, and fireweed to rosehip and mistletoe.
With this personal and informative primer, Susan Brackney opens the beehive to reveal the inner life of these unsung heroes of the food chain. At a time when their continued existence is threatened, Brackney's guide is an enthusiastic exploration that will set your mind buzzing.
There was a time when our ways were intimately woven with the pulse of the natural world. The answers to life's great questions were found not in books but in quiet communion with the voices of Mother Earth. From the mighty whale to the tiny bee, each animal and element was seen as sacred and was honoured for the gift it brought to the greater circle of life.
Open an ancient portal to discover the powerful connection between the healing wisdom of plants and their astrological rulers with this unique 55-card oracle deck and guidebook. Each richly illustrated card depicts a sacred plant ally and its planetary correspondences.
'A funny and beautifully written welcome to the enigmatic, weird and wonderful world of wasps' DAVE GOULSON, author of SILENT EARTH There may be no insect with a worse reputation than the wasp, and none guarding so many undiscovered wonders.
From the internationally bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees
An illuminating manifesto on ancient forests: how they adapt to climate change by passing their wisdom through generations, and why our future lies in protecting them.
The third and final updated edition of David Attenborough's classic Life trilogy. Life on Earth covered evolution, Living Planet , ecology, and now The Trials of Life tackles ethology, the study of how animals behave.