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Any recommendations?

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>>9977839
voynich manuscript

>> No.9978051

bump?

>> No.9978058

>>9977839
>botany
Like, actual, scientific botany, or a field guide or something?

>> No.9978070

>>9978058
This
Also unless you just want to get an overview of botany, I doubt that you're going to be interested in specialised books on plants.
My favourite books would have to be copiapoa in their environment and a book about australian terrestrial orchids though I've forgotten the name.

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Goethe's Metamorphosis of Plants, for something by a /lit/ titan.

>> No.9978108

>>9977839
Try /plant/ on /an/

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Plant Pathology by George N. Agrios is an excellent textbook on diseases of plants, if that's the kind of thing you're after.

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I mean...

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I got this as a reference book because I like to collect big books of info to reference when writing books I'll never write.
https://www.amazon.com/Leaves-Magic-Medicine-Alice-Vitale/dp/1556705549
Got it because of pretty illustrations, and because it references the uses, history and mythology of the plants, even if it's just surface information, which is something I've always had problems with. Why is it so hard to find out what kind of wood peasants used to beat witches with to make their demon skin blister? Anyway, It's a pretty book to have on a shelf at the very least.

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Ernst Junger's On the Marble Cliffs and the first volume of his three-volume WWII diaries.

After WWI, Junger studied philosophy and botany/biology, so botany is always a big part of his writing.

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>>9977839
Botany Illustrated: Introduction to Plants, Major Groups, Flowering Plant Families - Janice Glimn-Lacy, Peter B. Kaufman 2006
Experiments on Plant Hybridization by Gregor Mendel

>> No.9980573

bump for OP

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Andrea Wulf has written two or three compelling books about the history of botany tied in with biography and some history of empire