Xerophile: Cactus Photographs from Expeditions of the Obsessed

Cactus Store

Xerophile: Cactus Photographs from Expeditions of the Obsessed
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale
Country
United States
Published
7 December 2021
Pages
368
ISBN
9781984859341

Xerophile: Cactus Photographs from Expeditions of the Obsessed

Cactus Store

An updated edition of the cult classic, featuring stunning archival photographs of hundreds of the rarest and most spectacular plants on Earth,taken by a motley crew of cactus obsessives

A catalogue of wonders that most of us will never get to see in person. -The New Yorker

From the people behind Cactus Store comes Xerophile, a photographic collection of these improbable desert wonders in the wild.Drawing on the archives of twenty-five cactus obsessives-from PhD botanist to banker, art teacher to cancer researcher-this revised edition spans eighty years and features new and expanded descriptive notes for all 350+ photos.

Xerophile brings together eighty years’ worth of these explorers’ remarkable images from some of the world’s most remote habitats- a peculiar two-leaved plant that lives for millennia in the deserts of Namibia; succulents whose poisonous sap is used by hunters to fell large game in Angola; and cactus that live on snow-covered mountains in Bolivia, sink below ground level to survive droughts in Mexico, are pollinated by bats in Brazil, and grow in pure lava fields of the Gala?pagos Islands.

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