Xerophile av Cactus Store

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<b><b><b>An updated edition of the cult classic, featuring stunning archival photographs of hundreds of the rarest and most spectacular plants on Earth, taken by a motley crew of cactus obsessives</b><br></b><br>“A catalogue of wonders that most of us will never get to see in person.”—<i>The New Yorker</i></b><br><br>From the people behind Cactus Store comes <i>Xerophile</i>, a photographic collection of these improbable desert wonders in the wild. Drawing on the archives of twenty-five cactus obsessives—from PhD botanist to banker, art teacher to cancer researcher—this revised edition spans eighty years and features new and expanded descriptive notes for all 350+ photos.<br><br><i>Xerophile</i> brings together eighty years’ worth of these explorers’ remarkable images from some of the world’s most remote habitats: a peculiar two-leaved plant that lives for millennia in the deserts of Namibia; succulents whose poisonous sap is us