Books by Richard Mabey
Weeds: How Vagabond Plants Gatecrashed Civilisation and Changed the Way We Think About Nature (2010)
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English
review 1: I had assumed the reviewers who complained about the difficulty of understanding the British names for weeds were either lazy or unacquainted with google, but having read this whole dreary volume I now sympathize with them. It's not so much that Mabey uses the British names, howe...
language
English
review 1: I read this one for Book Club, and I can honestly say that I might not have finished it except for that reason. It's not that it's a terrible book - it's that it's very dry. I enjoyed the sections on weeds in Shakespeare's writing and the poppies of Europe after WWI. I also like...