Book Details
Title: A Treasury of Australian Wildflowers
Author: Douglass Baglin, Barbara Mullins and Frank Hurley
Illustrator: N/A
Publisher: Ure Smith
Year: 1972
Impression/Edition: N/A
Cover: Hardcover (No Dust Jacket)
Pages: 136
Dimensions:
Weight:
ISBN: 0 7254 0095 1
Battle Scars:
Overall good condition.
Outside:
The cover is intact with very minor shelf wear (rubbing) to edges, ends and corners. Some superficial scuffing.
The page margins (seen when book is closed) are clean.
Inside:
The binding is firm and intact.
Inside the front and back covers is clean.
The pages are clean and intact.
Don't forget to check the photos below for a visual and make sure you are happy prior to purchase. Happy to answer questions if there is information missing.
Book Content:
Taken from the Introduction by Barbara Mullins -
"Australia, last frontier for exploration and discovery of new plants, is a floral wonderland for botanists and garden lovers alike. In this vast continent of varied climates and soils, much of the flora is unique and all is beautiful.
The winter snows of the southern tablelands are replaced in summer by a mantle of alpine flowers. Following even the lightest shower of rain, the barren desert lands spring to life almost overnight, and the flat plains are covered as far as the eye can see with every conceivable colour. In the rainforests of Queensland are trees not yet described, though the area is known to abound with plants of great beauty, as well as some with valuable medicinal properties. Sandy heathlands and stony deserts have produced native plants which have learned to cope with harsh environments or perish: four thousand million years of natural selection have found a myriad of answers to drought and heat which may yet solve problems of survival and sustain the life of mankind. The Hawkesbury sandstone country of coastal New South Wales contains a greater variety of plants than the whole of the British Isles, and many are confined to this limited area. The southwest corner of Western Australia, isolated by sea and sand for countless centuries and probably the most ancient land mass on the face of the earth, has developed a specialised flora of remarkable beauty.
This is our treasury of wildflowers. It is threatened by urban and rural development, by mining on coastal beaches, tropical rainforests and arid inland plains. Its wealth is still unknown and, unlike our mineral resources, it is a treasure which can be used again and again - provided we do not destroy it. It is part of Australia's heritage, the preservation of which this book, like the series from which the four separate titles are reprinted, is dedicated."
Book Details
Title: A Treasury of Australian Wildflowers
Author: Douglass Baglin, Barbara Mullins and Frank Hurley
Illustrator: N/A
Publisher: Ure Smith
Year: 1972
Impression/Edition: N/A
Cover: Hardcover (No Dust Jacket)
Pages: 136
Dimensions:
Weight:
ISBN: 0 7254 0095 1
Battle Scars:
Overall good condition.
Outside:
The cover is intact with very minor shelf wear (rubbing) to edges, ends and corners. Some superficial scuffing.
The page margins (seen when book is closed) are clean.
Inside:
The binding is firm and intact.
Inside the front and back covers is clean.
The pages are clean and intact.
Don't forget to check the photos below for a visual and make sure you are happy prior to purchase. Happy to answer questions if there is information missing.
Book Content:
Taken from the Introduction by Barbara Mullins -
"Australia, last frontier for exploration and discovery of new plants, is a floral wonderland for botanists and garden lovers alike. In this vast continent of varied climates and soils, much of the flora is unique and all is beautiful.
The winter snows of the southern tablelands are replaced in summer by a mantle of alpine flowers. Following even the lightest shower of rain, the barren desert lands spring to life almost overnight, and the flat plains are covered as far as the eye can see with every conceivable colour. In the rainforests of Queensland are trees not yet described, though the area is known to abound with plants of great beauty, as well as some with valuable medicinal properties. Sandy heathlands and stony deserts have produced native plants which have learned to cope with harsh environments or perish: four thousand million years of natural selection have found a myriad of answers to drought and heat which may yet solve problems of survival and sustain the life of mankind. The Hawkesbury sandstone country of coastal New South Wales contains a greater variety of plants than the whole of the British Isles, and many are confined to this limited area. The southwest corner of Western Australia, isolated by sea and sand for countless centuries and probably the most ancient land mass on the face of the earth, has developed a specialised flora of remarkable beauty.
This is our treasury of wildflowers. It is threatened by urban and rural development, by mining on coastal beaches, tropical rainforests and arid inland plains. Its wealth is still unknown and, unlike our mineral resources, it is a treasure which can be used again and again - provided we do not destroy it. It is part of Australia's heritage, the preservation of which this book, like the series from which the four separate titles are reprinted, is dedicated."
