By Michelle Jeanguyot and Martine Séguier-Guis.
Tomato, pumpkin, bean, orange, apricot, pineapple, cutter, but also vanilla,
pepper, grooves, nutmeg or tea and coffee ... All these vegetables, these fruits
and these spices make today the delight of our table. However, these plants
travelled much to arrive to us : they lived thousand adventures human,
forwardings, voyages, combat, and bargaining to be finished moreover it ...
Leave to discover these food plants, their origin, of history of their arrival
on our premises, the culinary and medicinal traditions end of the world which
surround them.
Discover them especially under another eye, with through the reproduction of
70 boards of splendid herbaria, gathered with wire of the centuries by botanists
having traversed planet. The TRAVELLER HERBARIUM, a sumptuous book, to dream and
travel thanks to these plants ... and for better "appreciating them"!
Large size: 24 X 35 cm, 168 pages, quadrichromy, hard-bound cover, stripping
checkmate.
