The Big, Bad Book of Botany: The World's Most Fascinating Flora

The Big, Bad Book of Botany: The World's Most Fascinating Flora

David Attenborough meets Lemony Snicket in Michael Largo's entertaining and enlightening one-of-a-kind compendium of the world's most amazing and bizarre plants, their history, and their lore.

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