Kathy Willis
Autor/a de Botanicum: Welcome to the Museum
Sobre l'autor
Crèdit de la imatge: Prof. Kathy Willis
Obres de Kathy Willis
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom oficial
- Willis, Katherine Jane
- Nacionalitat
- UK
- Educació
- University of Southampton (B.Sc. ∙ geography ∙ environmental science)
Cambridge University (Ph.D. ∙ plant sciences) - Professions
- ecologist
- Organitzacions
- Oxford University
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
University of Bergen, Norway - Premis i honors
- FRGS
Michael Faraday Prize (2015)
Membres
Ressenyes
Llistes
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 6
- Membres
- 552
- Popularitat
- #45,212
- Valoració
- 4.2
- Ressenyes
- 6
- ISBN
- 33
- Llengües
- 13
I think my favourite chapter was 'A Blooming Tree of Life' but it is very brief. There were other interesting chapters too but the structure of the book has many brief chapters punctuated with groups of photos that are great but always come too late to illuminate the text, and it's always difficult to hunt back and find something that was interesting but half remembered.
And I have to agree with some other reviewers. The coverage of the british empire is mealy-mouthed. Reads as if the authors might have been a lot fiercer but were going to great lengths to try and speak a bit of truth without upsetting some vague establishment consensus. And for such a global subject came across as a disappointingly narrow viewpoint. Perhaps only an extra quarter star.… (més)