Amy Stewart

Fifty vignettes of remarkable people whose lives have been transformed by their obsessive passion for trees—written by the New York Times bestselling author of The Drunken Botanist “I love everything Amy Stewart has ever created, but this book is my favorite yet. I’m giving this book to...

Nell'autunno del 1915, Constance Kopp, dopo aver scartato sdegnosa il mestiere di giardiniera e intagliatrice, per non parlare di quello di governante, si destreggia nel suo nuovo mondo: la prigione dello sceriffo Heath, ad Hackensack, in New Jersey. Il suo posto da vicesceriffa è in...

New Jersey. 1914. Constance Kopp non è esattamente la tipica donna del suo tempo. È più alta di quasi tutti gli uomini che incontra, non...

In this darkly comical look at the sinister side of our relationship with the natural world, Stewart has tracked down over one hundred of our worst entomological foes....

Beware! The sordid lives of plants behaving badly. A tree that sheds poison daggers; a glistening red seed that stops the heart; a shrub that causes paralysis; a vine that strangles....

Amy Stewart vuelve a la carga con otra inolvidable aventura protagonizada por las aguerridas hermanas Kopp. En 1915, nadie esperaba que una...

Cuando Amy Stewart se topó con un artículo de 1914 que contaba cómo el coche del propietario de una fábrica había embestido la calesa...

They destroy plant diseases. They break down toxins. They plough the earth....

Every great drink starts with a plant. Sake began with a grain of rice. Scotch emerged from barley. Gin was born from a conifer shrub....