Im Garten der Gifte: Das geheimnisvolle Schattenreich der Pflanzen | Mit über 100 zauberhaften und filigranen Illustrationen der Autorin - Hardcover

Inkwright, Fez

 
9783747406427: Im Garten der Gifte: Das geheimnisvolle Schattenreich der Pflanzen | Mit über 100 zauberhaften und filigranen Illustrationen der Autorin
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 3747406424 ISBN 13: 9783747406427
Publisher: MVG Moderne Vlgs. Ges., 2024

Synopsis

Blue rain, dragon blood tree, angel trumpet, hungry grass.
Powerful names welcome you to the garden of poisons. Fez Inkwright interweaves botanical knowledge with fantastic folklore in this wonderfully illustrated work, tells of the most notorious deaths and poisonings from plants in ancient Rome, Middle Ages - to the present day, and she introduces a variety of plants, herbs, and mushrooms.
The ethnologist with a special sense of the unknown illuminates the properties and effects of these plants and shows their use in everyday life and religion. Learn why the mandrake is the root of many fantastic myths, the angel's trumpet bewitches so many people and what it is about the hungry grass. Open the gate to the treasure chamber of nature with this book and enter the mysterious shadow kingdom of plants.
A chronicle of botanical devils from the mandrake to the cerberus tree

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Publisher
MVG Moderne Vlgs. Ges.
Publication date
2024
Language
German
ISBN 10 
3747406424
ISBN 13 
9783747406427
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
288