作品情報

植物を求めて世界を歩いた記録。

世界各地での植物採集や園芸への取り組みを綴った回想録的著作。植物導入の経緯や各地での体験、園芸文化に関する観察を豊富なエピソードで伝える。

書籍情報

出版社

Blackburn Press

発売日

2018-02-01

ページ数

640ページ

言語

英語

サイズ

17.78 x 3.28 x 25.4 cm

ISBN-13

9781932846300

ISBN-10

1932846301

価格

10994 JPY

カテゴリ

洋書/Professional & Technical/Professional Science/Agricultural Sciences

David Fairchild wrote this book to describe his extensive world travels and his work introducing new plant species to the United States. In addition to sharing his legendary tropical botanical expertise, Fairchild provided graphic accounts of native cultures he was able to see before their modernization. He was an accomplished photographer and illustrated the book himself. This is his personal story of his experiences, traveling endlessly, absorbing information about plant life and sending back cuttings to experiment with, investigating plant disease, and so on. His training and experiences in European laboratories and his travels brought him into contact with most of the people in his own field, and this narrative is full of human interest material, and anecdote. Fairchild worked for the USDA in its infancy, was one of the first to investigate microbial causes of plant disease, and traveled the world documenting agricultural practices. He was a humorous and modest man who lead a fascinating life. David Grandison Fairchild (April 7, 1869 - August 6, 1954) was an American botanist and plant explorer. Fairchild was responsible for the introduction of more than 200,000 exotic plants and varieties of established crops into the United States, including soybeans, pistachios, mangos, nectarines, dates, bamboos, and flowering cherries. Certain varieties of wheat, cotton, and rice became especially economically important.

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