Bamboo / Susanne Lucas.

Main entry:

Lucas, Susanne, author.

Title & Author:

Bamboo / Susanne Lucas.

Publication:

London, UK : Reaktion Books, 2025.
©2013

Description:

182 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 22 cm.

Series:

Reaktion's botanical series

Notes:
First published 2013. Paperback edition first published 2025.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Distribution, diversity and classification -- Horticulture -- The hand of man -- Modern potentials, today and tomorrow -- The environment -- Timeline -- Appendix I: Tribes and subtribes of bamboo -- Appendix II: Bamboo gardens and arboreta.

Summary:

We may think of bamboo only as a snack for cuddly panda bears, but we use the plant as food, clothing, paper, fabric, and shelter. Drawing on a vast array of sources, this book builds a complete picture of bamboo in both history and our modern world. Susanne Lucas shows how bamboo has always met the physical and spiritual requirements of humanity while at the same time being exploited by people everywhere. Lucas describes how bamboo's special characteristics, such as its ability to grow quickly and thus be an easily replaced resource, offers potential solutions to modern ecological dilemmas. She explores the vital role bamboo plays in the survival of many animals and ecosystems, as well as its use for some of the earliest books ever written, as the framework for houses, and for musical instruments. As modern research and technologies advance, she explains, bamboo use has increased dramatically--it can now be found in the filaments of light bulbs, airplanes, the reinforcements of concrete, and even bicycles. Filled with illustrations, Bamboo is an interesting new take on a plant that is both very old and very new.

ISBN:

9781789149258 (paparback)
1789149258

Subject:

Bamboo.
Bamboo History.
Bamboo Religious aspects.
Bamboo products.
Plants and civilization.
Bamboo Pictorial works.
Bamboo History Pictorial works.
Bamboo products Pictorial works.
Bamboo Utilization Pictorial works.
Bambou.
Bambou Histoire.
Bambou Aspect religieux.
Produits en bambou.
Plantes et civilisation.
Bambou Ouvrages illustrés.
Bambou Histoire Ouvrages illustrés.
Produits en bambou Ouvrages illustrés.
Bambou Utilisation Ouvrages illustrés.
bamboo (plant)

Added entries:

Botanical (Reaktion Books (Firm))

Holdings:

Location: Library main 321061
Call No.: 321061
Copy: 1
Status: Available

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